"Mecanoscrit del segon origen" de Manuel de Pedrolo: una nova interpretació del mite de recomençament

Abstract

Humanity has always feared to disappear after a cataclysm, but has always dreamed of a new beginning, and if possible of survivors of the disaster; see on this subject the myth of Noah. In our time, between the danger of a nuclear conflict and the fantastical fear of an invasion by extra-terrestrials, the myth acquires a new topicality. It has a double aspect: the existence of isolated individuals struggling for their survival and the way in which they compose a new society. Based on several novels: Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Lord of the Flies by Golding, Ape and Essence by Huxley and Malevil by Robert Merle, I compare them to the work of Manuel de Pedrolo to identify their originality.