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Who said science and literature weren’t compatible?
Students in 8th grade are currently studying the science fiction novel Ravage by the brilliant René Barjavel, pioneer of the post-apocalyptic genre in France. Many questions are raised through the story of the characters Blanche and François, two young adults who live in a world ruled entirely by electricity, in which animal husbandry and agriculture have disappeared to make way for food created 100% in laboratories by “chemical specialists”.
Last Wednesday, the students debated the question of the food of the future: what will we eat tomorrow, and what are already the dangers and limits of the world of 2052 as imagined by Barjavel?