L'effondrement, avant, pendant, après.

Avant, Pendant, Après

Ce livre explore l’effondrement occidental en trois volets — avant, pendant, après — et propose une reconstruction sans répéter les erreurs.

Green leaves sprouting from broken glass fragments surrounded by forest roots and moss

Mon Parcours

Né en 1947 à Saint-Brieuc, j’ai quitté tôt les salles de classe pour la route — sept ans à travers l’Europe, l’Afrique et l’Inde, dont un an à vivre en sâdhu. De retour en Bretagne, une fois en retraite, je me suis consacré à l’écriture et à la traduction du sanskrit. J’ai publié une dizaine de livres — polars bretons, essais historiques, la traduction complète du Rig Veda — avant d’écrire ce livre sur l’effondrement. Mes travaux sont disponibles sur www.rigveda.net et www.leffondrement.org.

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A vast modern city skyline seen from afar, half of the buildings intact and gleaming, the other half crumbling and overtaken by creeping vegetation. Sleek glass towers reflect a pale, overcast sky while adjacent structures have shattered windows, exposed rebar, and trees sprouting from broken floors. The foreground shows a deserted multilane highway cracked and buckled, with grass pushing through the asphalt. Soft diffused daylight creates gentle contrasts, emphasizing textures of glass, concrete, and foliage. Photographic realism, shot at eye level with a wide-angle lens and deep depth of field, conveying a contemplative, professional mood about the thin line between stability and collapse.
A quiet, abandoned lecture hall with tiered wooden desks, all empty, facing a large chalkboard that dominates the back wall. On the chalkboard, complex bilingual diagrams and keywords about systemic risk, feedback loops, and resilience are half-erased, leaving ghostly traces of earlier debates. Dust motes hang in the air, caught in slanting late afternoon sunlight entering through tall, dirty windows on one side. Some notebooks and a single analog wall clock stopped at an ambiguous hour add subtle detail. Photographic realism, captured from the back of the room at a slightly elevated angle, with sharp focus on the chalkboard and soft falloff toward the edges, creating a reflective, sober atmosphere about knowledge left behind after societal breakdown.
An overhead view of a large, detailed world map printed on slightly worn, matte paper spread across a dark wooden table. Three concentric zones, subtly shaded and annotated in both French and English, represent “before”, “during”, and “after” collapse scenarios, with different colored pins and fine-thread connections illustrating shifting systems: energy, food, and governance. A metal compass, a mechanical pencil, and a rugged, closed field notebook lie nearby, suggesting ongoing strategic planning. Cool, diffused daylight from a nearby window creates soft shadows and emphasizes paper texture and ink detail. Photographic realism with crisp focus across the frame, composed with the map centered and tools around the periphery, evoking a calm, methodical mood of scenario analysis rather than panic.
A narrow urban street seen in triptych within a single photographic frame: on the left, the buildings are pristine with lit windows and polished facades; in the center, the same structures are damaged, windows blown out, debris scattered, and streetlights dark; on the right, nature has begun to reclaim the space with ivy-draped balconies, saplings breaking through pavement, and solar panels rigged on roofs. The sky transitions from clear blue to stormy gray to soft dawn. Photographic realism with seamless compositing, eye-level perspective, and deep depth of field, creating a calm yet unsettling atmosphere that visualizes “avant, pendant, après” in a single, coherent urban narrative.