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After the much noticed Transparency according to Irina, with futuristic allures, the young novelist Benjamin Fogel draws here, through a thriller, a dark portrait of our contemporary world.
Through Ilan Levy
Online harassment and masculinism
Incels, involuntary celibates, a concept that often came from the United States, regularly attack women on the Internet. Relying on their own dismay, they harass and despise the “Stacy” women they deem too beautiful, especially those who get very good marks on rating sites. Those who reply or laugh at these poor, boorish and frustrated single men risk their lives. Taking advantage of the anonymity provided by the internet, they pour out their monstrosity without restraint,
The police are forced to devote very large resources to it because the online hatred and harassment of masculinists can lead to the worst at any time, especially when they violently oppose – always online the neo straight edge. This other male movement advocates chastity and moral, but quickly deviates into terrorism in the United States.
The murderous drifts
In Paris, the musicians of Significant Youth are attacked during a concert by incels who hate the humanist and feminist values defended by the group.
This violent episode is the prelude to a more violent attack which will turn the life of Yvan and Simon, the leaders of the group, upside down.
The violence is engaged, no one will be able to stop it.
It will take the stubbornness of Commissioner Sébastien Mille, specialist in online harassment, to calm the situation and find the culprits, all the more elusive as they act masked on the web.
An anticipatory crime thriller where the future is already very present.
Ilan Levy
Benjamin Fogel, The silence according to Manon, Payot Rivage, 343p, € 20
