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In the category of totalitarian utopias, the Handmaid of Margaret Atwood holds well his rank. The book is a possible construction of the future in an imaginary republic held by religious fundamentalists in the northeast United States. The author takes the example of the Christian fundamentalist but it is a language facility related to the 'politically correct'. The author was probably in contact with representatives of the 'bible belt' Protestant fundamentalist but if we speak of theocracy mixed with authoritarian political regimes with close monitoring of women shrouded in veils, I doubt whether this side that we should look at. Let's say that the hypothesis of Ms. Atwood illustrative and that his ideas apply to any regime that implements ideas wanting to have all the answers, strictly speaking totalitarianism. In the Republic of Gilead, founded after a series of wars and pollution have drastically reduced the number of inhabitants and the fertility of the survivors, reproductive age women have become untouchable sacred vases and above all, no longer having any margin maneuver to manage their lives. They range from 'commanders' to 'commanders' with the sole mission of being fertilized. Defred, who tells his story in the first person, is one of those women that we call 'Handmaid's Tale'. This narrative for fiction in history, is presented at the end of volume as a story from the past we do not know if it can be described as authentic or not, giving the Atwood's story is a dark side the closer to the black light of previous works just as dark as '1984' and 'Brave New World'.

The style of Margaret Atwood is rather impersonal and not very fluid in my eyes. As I know of no other books by this author, it is not possible to me to say whether this impression is a style effect tied to the story put in the hands of Defred or a deep respect of the author that the found elsewhere.