A twisted book consisting of two novels by Régis Messac, a renowned French essayist, poet, and translator, a member of the Resistance who died in a German concentration camp.

The novel 'Yessinanepsi' continues the tradition of post-apocalyptic dystopias. But while the heroes of the classic end-of-the-world tale do everything to survive, here the main protagonist (or even antihero)—a miraculous survivor of the dispersal of the deadly gas that wiped out almost the entire population of the Earth during World War II—is passive and irresponsible. He watches with detachment and indifference as the handful of children who survived with him degenerate and build their own primitive society.

In his latest work, 'Cretinodolie,' Messac turns to the theme of distant exotic travels and scientific discoveries, but here, too, he reveals it in his own way. An expedition discovers a population of cretins on a lost island in the Pacific Ocean—degenerate humanoid creatures whose development has stalled at the Stone Age level.

The narrative is permeated with deep despair and disappointment in the human race: and how can one love Man and believe in Man after what he has done and continues to do?

Author: Régis Messac
Publishing House: Polyandria No Age
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 256
Cover type: hardback
Translator: Mikhail Emelyanov
Country of origin: Spain
Age group: 18+