Olga Ravn

The Employees

Les employés

January 6, 2020
Novel
176 pages
128 × 190 mm
18 €
9782924898505
978-2-9248-9850-5
Traduit du danois par
Christine Berlioz et Laila Flink Thullesen
Olga Ravn, The Employees
Olga Ravn, The Employees

“Yesterday, after the interview, I suddenly realized that I was in the room with one of the objects on my lap, and when I really regained consciousness, I noticed that I was stroking the object with my thumb, as if it was someone I loved, Although I never felt love, yet at that moment, before I even understood what I was doing, love filled me, and I knew, as in dreams, what it means to love a living thing.”

In an indistinct future, millions of miles from Earth, employees are working on the six thousandth ship of a powerful and mysterious totalitarian-looking company. There are humans and there are people like them. There are those who were born and those who were created. Those who will die and those who won’t. Over a period of eighteen months, a commission is compiling a series of testimonies about the relationships and production on board the ship where the activity often consists of watching strange buzzing objects, which improve the mood, fertilize dreams and hallucinate consciences. As chilling as it is moving, this science fiction reveals the distress of humans forced to live far from home and the questioning of similar people about their emotional capacities.

The author

Olga Ravn is a Danish writer born in 1986. The Employees is her second novel. Her literary work, influential for a whole generation, is acclaimed in Denmark.

January 6, 2020
Novel
176 pages
128 × 190 mm
18 €
9782924898505
978-2-9248-9850-5
Traduit du danois par
Christine Berlioz et Laila Flink Thullesen