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In Paris, on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, an old man
suddenly vanishes without a trace: a new plague has reached France, and
will soon grow to terrible proportions. The event is witnessed by a cytologist
working at the Aristotle Institute, who is also a Polyplast--the result
of an experiment in selective breeding intended to produce pacifists,
but which has also had perverse results. As a result of his presence at
the crucial event, the Polyplast becomes a privileged observer of the
entire tragedy, of which he naturally sets out to write a personalized
history, explaining how the new plague became the casus belli of yet another
war in an endless series, fought with the aid of "Archimedes":
powerful, long-range weapons that would destroy the world in no time were
it not for their habit of misfiring, and only killing tens of thousands
of people instead of millions. The Napus, first published in 1927,
remains one of the classics of absurdist science fiction.
Published by The Borgo Press in January 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4344-4575-9
