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Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood, author of "The Handmaid's Tale". – Griffin Lipson / BFA / Shut / SIPA
The global cardboard of the Hulu series has visibly inspired Margaret Atwood. The Canadian novelist announced Tuesday that she was writing the rest of her 1985 feminist dystopia, The Scarlet Servant (The Handmaid's Tale in V.O.). christened Wills, the novel will take place in the world of Gilead, fifteen years later.
Yes indeed to those who asked: I'm writing to myself #HandmaidsTale. #TheTestaments is set 15 years after the end of the day and is narrated by three female characters. It will be published in Sept 2019. More details: https://t.co/e1umh5FwpX pic.twitter.com/pePp0zpuif
– Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) November 28, 2018
"I'm writing a sequel to Tea #HandmaidsTale. #TheTestaments takes place 15 years after the last scene of Offred and is told by three female characters, "tweeted Margaret Atwood, referring to the character played by Elizabeth Moss in the series. This new book will be published on September 10, 2019.
The 79-year-old Canadian accompanied her publication with a short video message noting that "everything you've asked me about Gilead and its inner workings serves as inspiration for this book. In fact, almost everything! The extra inspiration is the world we live in. "The plot will not be linked to that of the series, which traces its own route in season 2.
Award-winning Goldens Globes and Emmy Awards
The Scarlet Maid"is a dystopian novel released in 1985 that has seen its impact increased tenfold by its adaptation to television, in the form of a series whose broadcast began in April 2017 on the American platform Hulu, and on OCS in France. United States, the book has been sold to more than eight million copies.
The plot takes place in a very near future when the United States was overthrown by a religious dictatorship, the "Gilead Republic", at a time when, for unclear environmental reasons, humans have seen their fertility collapse . The few women still able to procreate, such as the heroine Offred, embodied on screen by Elisabeth Moss, were turned into bad slaves in the service of Gilead's leaders who raped them during monthly religious ceremonies.
A series that resonates with the #MeToo era
Soon, this apocalyptic tale relegating women to objects became a must for the anti-Trump, but also in the wake of the #MeToo movement, as a parable of the American conservative drift and badual badault suffered by women.
"When Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, The Scarlet Maid has become the symbol of the movement against him, embodying feminine emancipation and resistance to misogyny and the decline of women's rights, "said Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart, a subsidiary of US publishing house Penguin Random House.
The red suit worn by the women of the "Gilead Republic", reminiscent of nuns' uniforms, has emerged as a rallying cry: ubiquitous in the United States during the battle against confirmation at the Supreme Court of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, accused of attempted rape when he was high school student, has reappeared in protests for women's rights and the right to abortion, or in recent months in Argentina, Ireland, Belgium or Poland.
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