Wednesday, February 27, 2019

''Cli-Fi'' Wave NEWS ARTICLE FROM FRANCE IN FRENCH WITH SCREEN GRAB AND GOOGLE ENGLISH TRANSLATION HERE

"Cli-fi" Wave article by Clotilde Ravel for Livres Hebdo magazine in France
 PHOTO OF ACTUAL PAGES AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY MRS GOOGLE BELOW: photos hat tip to Yann Quero in France who took photos for this blog!







From the United States where it was first coined and promoted in 2011

as a new literary trend, in literature

as in cinema, the "climate fiction" [aka cli-fi] is spreading

in France influencing the novel as well

traditional as science fiction and YA literature

for young adult readers. [- by Clotilde Ravel and Nicolas Turcev]



After the success of

his book Une his-

bees,

elapsed to a million

copies in

the world, Norway

Maja Lunde

will publish on May 9 in France the second

part of its ecological tetralogy. Blue

tells the fight for access to water

in a southern Europe ravaged by

drought.



We find this fight for "gold

blue ", available on the African continent

Cain, in the Aqua TM saga of the

vain science-fiction Jean-Marc

Ligny (L'Atalante, 2006-2015), where

again, in southwestern

Cain, in Water Knife by Paolo Baciga-

lupi (Au Diable Vauvert, 2016). published

in different categories (literature

"White", SF or polar), these works

illustrate the interest of their authors for

environmental issues.

The expression "climate fiction" is

appeared in 2011 under the pen of the day-

American artist Dan Bloom for

to sign these novels often derived from the

Post-apocalyptic SF who portray

the devastating effects of

climate change on the world and

men.



"I invented this word to re-

watch people. Climate fiction is a

"Heart cry" [expression pronounced in

French in the interview in English], a

movement to alert the generations

future studies on the severity of environmental risks

"explains the environmental activist,

logist at Hebdo Books.



Issue of SF



In retrospect, Grapes from

the anger (1939) of John Steinbeck, who

staged the dramatic consequences

of the Dust Bowl, a storm of

dust and sand in Texas in

1935, can be considered as one

first novels of "cli-fi".



The phenomenon first developed

in the United States with Frank's Dune

Herbert (1965), adapted to the cinema by

David Lynch in 1984, but also in

Europe, with the tetralogy of English

J. G. Ballard published between 1964 and 1977

by Casterman and Denoel. The third

component, Drought, depicts an apocalypse

lypse caused by the disappearance of

waters under the influence of

industrial development of the oceans.



SF authors are the first

to draw inspiration from the theory of "anthropo-

pocene ", theorized by scientists

characterized by the determinant impact

human activities on bio-

sphere. The filmmakers fit them

step with movies such as Waterworld

(1995), a world transformed by

Matrix (1999), a world of

sky darkened by men, The day

after (2004) and the arrival of a new

Ice Age, The Sons of Man (2006),

where pollution prevents humans from

to reproduce, or the character

Cartoon Wall-E (2008), robot

evolving on a planet so polluted that

no more plants grow there.





"This kind, cousin of the science-fic-

tion, is bound to develop in

France, "prophesies Dan Bloom. Of

done, for Mireille Rivalard, director

L'Atalante, "80% of the books that we

publish in SF largely take into account

the climatic factor. The publisher of

Jean-Marc Ligny believes, however, that

the cli-fi is "neither a genre in its own right,

nor an objective in itself, "but a subject that

irrigates all literature and cinema;

an adaptation of Aqua TM is elsewhere

"In discussion" in Germany.



Other initiatives attest to the de-

development of this segment in the

country. The Arkuiris editions, special-

particular in the publication of

books around the environment,

throw a call for texts

March "with the aim of launching a col-

climate-fiction election, "says Yann

Quero, himself author of SF and direc-

collector at Arkuiris.



If French authors invest

the sector, the literature collections

are those where we find the

more novels related to the

mast. Rivages publishes for twenty years

Barbara Kingsolver, novelist "economics

lo "and former science journalist,

but also EmilySt. John Mandel, figure

of the cli-fi since Station Eleven (2016).

Sold in 30000 copies in France,

this post-apocalyptic fiction puts into

scene of characters browsing the

rubble of civilization decimated in

declaiming Shakespeare.



Present in young adult



The most recent successes in

mate-fiction were recorded at

Presses of the City and Devil vauvert,

who respectively publish the novel-

Norway's Maja Lunde and the

Paolo Bacigalupi. On the

aside, a novelist from the litera-

youth, and of which A history of

bees, bestseller of the year 2017 in

Germany,

We find this fight for "gold

blue ", available on the African continent

Cain, in the Aqua TM saga of the

vain science-fiction Jean-Marc

Ligny (L'Atalante, 2006-2015), where

again, in southwestern

Cain, in Water Knife by Paolo Baciga-

lupi (Au Diable Vauvert, 2016). published

in different categories (literature

"White", SF or polar), these works

illustrate the interest of their authors for

environmental issues.

The expression "climate fiction" is

appeared in 2011 under the pen of the day-

American artist Dan Bloom for

to sign these novels often derived from the

Post-apocalyptic SF who portray

the devastating effects of

climate change on the world and

men.



"I invented this word to re-

watch people. Climate fiction is a

"Heart cry" [expression pronounced in

French in the interview in English], a

movement to alert the generations

future studies on the severity of environmental risks

"explains the environmental activist,

logist at Hebdo Books.



Issue of SF



In retrospect, Grapes from

the anger (1939) of John Steinbeck, who

staged the dramatic consequences

of the Dust Bowl, a storm of

dust and sand in Texas in

1935, can be considered as one

first novels of "cli-fi".



The phenomenon first developed

in the United States with Frank's Dune

Herbert (1965), adapted to the cinema by

David Lynch in 1984, but also in

Europe, with the tetralogy of English

J. G. Ballard published between 1964 and 1977

by Casterman and Denoel. The third

component, Drought, depicts an apocalypse

lypse caused by the disappearance of

waters under the influence of

industrial development of the oceans.



SF authors are the first

to draw inspiration from the theory of "anthropo-

pocene ", theorized by scientists

characterized by the determinant impact

human activities on bio-

sphere. The filmmakers fit them

step with movies such as Waterworld

(1995), a world transformed by

Matrix (1999), a world of

sky darkened by men, The day

after (2004) and the arrival of a new

Ice Age, The Sons of Man (2006),

where pollution prevents humans from

to reproduce, or the character

Cartoon Wall-E (2008), robot

evolving on a planet so polluted that

no more plants grow there.





"This kind, cousin of the science-fic-

tion, is bound to develop in

France, "prophesies Dan Bloom. Of

done, for Mireille Rivalard, director

L'Atalante, "80% of the books that we

publish in SF largely take into account

the climatic factor. The publisher of

Jean-Marc Ligny believes, however, that

the cli-fi is "neither a genre in its own right,

nor an objective in itself, "but a subject that

irrigates all literature and cinema;

an adaptation of Aqua TM is elsewhere

"In discussion" in Germany.



Other initiatives attest to the de-

development of this segment in the

country. The Arkuiris editions, special-

particular in the publication of

books around the environment,

throw a call for texts

March "with the aim of launching a col-

climate-fiction election, "says Yann

Quero, himself author of SF and direc-

collector at Arkuiris.



If French authors invest

the sector, the literature collections

are those where we find the

more novels related to the

mast. Rivages publishes for twenty years

Barbara Kingsolver, novelist "economics

lo "and former science journalist,

but also EmilySt. John Mandel, figure

of the cli-fi since Station Eleven (2016).

Sold in 30000 copies in France,

this post-apocalyptic fiction puts into

scene of characters browsing the

rubble of civilization decimated in

declaiming Shakespeare.



Present in young adult



The most recent successes in

mate-fiction were recorded at

Presses of the City and Devil vauvert,

who respectively publish the novel-

Norway's Maja Lunde and the

Paolo Bacigalupi. On the

aside, a novelist from the litera-

youth, and of which A history of

bees, bestseller of the year 2017 in

Germany, depicts the fate of a young

boy who spends his days pollinating

nature by hand after the disappearance

insects. On the other, an old

journalist in the journal Ecolo-

High Country News which has become

posed as one of the big names of

the contemporary cli-fi with the girl

tomato (2009), Scrap yard of the seas (price

Locus of the best novel for young people

adults in 2011) and then Water Knife (2015).

The publisher Paolo Bacigalupi saw

grow the climate concern

for young people. Jury member

news contest for 15-25

years, Marion Mazauric observes since

two years that "half of the finalists

"This kind, cousin of the science-fic-

tion, is bound to develop in

France, "prophesies Dan Bloom. Of

done, for Mireille Rivalard, director

L'Atalante, "80% of the books that we

publish in SF largely take into account

the climatic factor. The publisher of

Jean-Marc Ligny believes, however, that

the cli-fi is "neither a genre in its own right,

nor an objective in itself, "but a subject that

irrigates all literature and cinema;

an adaptation of Aqua TM is elsewhere

"In discussion" in Germany.



Other initiatives attest to the de-

development of this segment in the

country. The Arkuiris editions, special-

particular in the publication of

books around the environment,

throw a call for texts

March "with the aim of launching a col-

climate-fiction election, "says Yann

Quero, himself author of SF and direc-

collector at Arkuiris.



If French authors invest

the sector, the literature collections

are those where we find the

more novels related to the

mast. Rivages publishes for twenty years

Barbara Kingsolver, novelist "economics

lo "and former science journalist,

but also EmilySt. John Mandel, figure

of the cli-fi since Station Eleven (2016).

Sold in 30000 copies in France,

this post-apocalyptic fiction puts into

scene of characters browsing the

rubble of civilization decimated in

declaiming Shakespeare.



Present in young adult



The most recent successes in

mate-fiction were recorded at

Presses of the City and Devil vauvert,

who respectively publish the novel-

Norway's Maja Lunde and the

Paolo Bacigalupi. On the

aside, a novelist from the litera-

youth, and of which A history of

bees, bestseller of the year 2017 in

Germany, depicts the fate of a young

boy who spends his days pollinating

nature by hand after the disappearance

insects. On the other, an old

journalist in the journal Ecolo-

High Country News which has become

posed as one of the big names of

the contemporary cli-fi with the girl

tomato (2009), Scrap yard of the seas (price

Locus of the best novel for young people

adults in 2011) and then Water Knife (2015).

The publisher Paolo Bacigalupi saw

grow the climate concern

for young people. Jury member

news contest for 15-25

years, Marion Mazauric observes since

two years that "half of the finalists

tell a society marked by the

global warming. Last year

However, it was 50 degrees in two

velles, "she notes.



Aware that the younger generation

is very sensitive to these topics, the authors

of young adult have integrated them into

the sets of their novels. " We saw

the interwoven climate problem

with other issues in the course of the

dystopia, born five years ago with force, between

Hunger Games, Divergent or The

5evague, "says Natacha Derevitsky,

literary director of Pocket Jeunesse.



In 2018, she published L'horloge de l'apoca-

lypse, which features a heroine from

19 years old in the hot climate of the Grand

Western US: it sells to some

2,000 copies. "It's the paradox

what we live, she analyzes. We

are facing the absolute urgency of doing

what it takes to stop warming

climate change, but environmentalists are

not on the front line in the elections.



In the same way, the books around the

mat are not leading sales for now.

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