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Japonese by Sylvain Cardonnel Yapou, humain cattle, postmodern fresco who will be published in three book, is one of texts the more extraordinary that I read. To image of Jules Verne extravagant and pervert, Shoro Numa explore the system of domination that suffer the Yapou (descendant of the man japanese belittle to rank of cattle) on the empire EHS, to ten century. A spaceship get down on earth, in 1960, near to young couple (a german and a japonese). After have come the aid to the passenger, they go in
travel in the
time for joint EHS, discover a univers dominate by a white
noble to germanic origin directed by the women, who are reduce to slavery, the Yapous, destinate to satisfied their needs and ilodize the whites. This travel will lead to the transformation of young japonese in Yapou to serve of his last fiancé, in future member of the noble of EHS. Re-take the tradition of Jonathan Swith and the fictitious travel, this delirious history, marked by a feint erudition and of constant adress to reader, represente the quintessence literary of the hately to oneself of Japonese traumatized by the history. Yapou discribe a total world, cross by a black humour and caustic, where all, of the social organization to technological gadgets, in passing by the philosophical and ideological system, is scrupulously listed. Great text of masochism, haunt by the imperialism notions, to racial supremacy, of the eugenism, of sexual domination, Yapou has been disgrace by the Japan of after war. Shozo Numa is born in 1926 to Hakata. He live to tokyo. Yapou,
Human cattle has been published for the first time in 1956, under form of serial. The book has known since the multiple editions, even for divers mangas, and has been sold to futher millions of copy. Disorder will publish the second book of Yapou in 2006.
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