Apocalypse in prose: has the worst happened or is it yet to come?

When you think of the end of the world in literature, two things immediately spring to mind: Joël Dicker or the great dystopias. It's neither of these that we're going to discuss here. In the same way that fantasy and science fiction are intimately linked to the apocalyptic vision of humanity, so-called «white» literature is also increasingly taking up the subject. And if the world is being turned upside down, the two novels we're going to look at are also turning the reader upside down. Each in its own way.

A world suddenly devastated by an explosion. This is the classic setting of Sandrine Collette’s novel *Et toujours les fôrets*. A world that has become uninhabitable—yet in which Corentin must find the strength and the wits to survive. In *Vivonne*, Jérôme Leroy depicts an entirely different world: that of a continent torn apart by civil war, where chaos and violence reign