Earthbound

ISBN-13: 9781530373642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 98 str.

Gwendoline Courreges

Opis

Following the philosophical shredding of modern society into smithereens, Earth's sole survivor is free to narrate the jellyfish fueled post-apocalypse, by unabashedly celebrating nature and the perennial philosophy in this metaphysical fable of ultimate female redemption. In the near future, an increasingly flooded Earth has become the stage for one final war: Man vs. Jellyfish. Part one has our first character feeling philosophical. While pondering upon the red sky and the advancing sea, he sets out to list the four downfalls of humanity, working himself into a fury of disgust that leads to his suicide. Fast forwarding to the multicolored and peaceful post-apocalypse of the second part, we meet our protagonist, a mysterious woman living as a hermit on the 6th floor of a Hausmannian building in a submerged Paris, France. Without any flora or fauna in sight, our heroine connects to nature through alchemy, but her yearning for green Earthly growth becomes increasingly potent. Throughout her personal musings, she delivers an account of the last seven days of human self-awareness. She will discover a special tree, meet a cat that will become her guru, harness the power of her dreams, unleash her mind and survive a tsunami, discovering a powerful secret. Her enlightenment leads to the destruction of self-consciousness as she becomes one with the planet, inversely echoing Eve's doom and the fall from Eden.

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