The Great Skrumpf-Skrumpf

This book contains a second series of short stories that Michel Méry wrote between 1985 and 1995. They were all translated by himself for submission/publication in English in various American magazines and then collected under the title The Father, The Son and The Wakperson published by III Publishing in San Francisco in 1996. Here they are under a new title; few readers in 2022 would remember what a walkman was, let alone a walkperson! Even...
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This book contains a second series of short stories that Michel Méry wrote between 1985 and 1995. They were all translated by himself for submission/publication in English in various American magazines and then collected under the title The Father, The Son and The Wakperson published by III Publishing in San Francisco in 1996. Here they are under a new title; few readers in 2022 would remember what a walkman was, let alone a walkperson! Even more so than those collected in Everybody Lives at 10 Downing Street, these stories are steeped in the philosophy of science and offer an ironic and often hilarious testimony on the world and America at the end of the last century, with its audio background of newscasts and advertisements of the time, all extrapolated to the mentally unbearable of a kind of post-humanist dystopia.