The Possibility Of An Island
(Michel Houellebecq)
More than a futuristic science fiction novel, this is a philosophical treatment of chaos, or of existence (which amounts to the same thing). The traditional religions have succumbed before the concretion of eternity, offered by a new sect named elohimita, which worships pleasure and whose first temple resembles a brothel worthy of Sodom and Gomorra. The transcendental promise of the traditional religions can do nothing in the face of the conrete truths of this technological sect, which promises eternity by conserving the genes and memories of its followers, so that they be eternally reborn, like a kind of reincarnation. From this point, men will cease to be humans and will become neohumans; a new race, free of emotions, love and, finally, the suffering proper to the human race as we know it. Daniel, the protagonist of this novel, is writing his autobiography and tells of all the Daniels who precede him, all the Daniels that he has been, together with his dog, Fox, who - like him - has been cloned, in a future dominated by nuclear destruction.
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