Les gladiateurs reviennent Maria Maïlat et la violence en spectacle

Important texts illustrate the problems and fears of an epoch. This is the case with the œuvre of Maria Maïlat and above all one of her novels, La Grâce de l’ennemi. Published in 1999, this novel, it seems, seeks to affirm that the civilisation of manners does not exist and that violence, from now on a constant in society, has taken all points of reference away from humanity and produced a link between incompatible aspects of life, the significance of which is suggested in the title.