A novelist mixes Final Fantasy VII, the Bible and Hamlet to write the climate crisis
In his second novel, «Midgar», Noham Selcer draws on video games and classic literature alike to portray siblings who face the ecological emergency in opposite ways, according to Le Monde.
For «Midgar», Noham Selcer's second novel, the writer has openly built on «Final Fantasy VII», the Bible and «Hamlet» to construct a story about planetary crisis, according to Le Monde. The title itself borrows the name of the video game's fictional metropolis, a city built on the exploitation of a dying planet's life force.
According to the newspaper, the novel centers on a sibling pair with opposing attitudes toward climate and environmental challenges. Le Monde reports that Selcer has acknowledged being shaped as much by video games as by literature, and chose to write from that hybrid formation rather than against it.
No publisher, release date or further plot details were given in the available material.
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