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"The Scarlet Servant", dystopia on a nightmarish America turned into a theocracy after a coup, will see a sequel next September, "The Wills", whose action will take place 15 years after the end of the successful novel adapted to television, announced Wednesday its author, the Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood.
"I write a sequel to + The # HandmaidsTale + (The Scarlet Servant, Ed.) + # TheTestaments + (The Wills) takes place 15 years after the last scene of Offred and is told by three female characters," tweeted Ms. Atwood .
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 how it's done internally serves as inspiration for this book – in fact, almost everything!" is the world we live in. "
"The Scarlet Servant" is a dystopian novel released in 1985 that has had 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.
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 sex slaves in the service of Gilead's leaders who raped them during monthly religious ceremonies.
– Anti-trump symbol –
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 sexual assault suffered by women.
"When Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016, The Scarlet Servant became the symbol of the movement against him, embodying women's emancipation and resistance to misogyny and the retreat of women's rights," he said. Canadian publisher of Mrs. Atwood, McClelland & Stewart, a subsidiary of the American publisher 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.
More than eight million copies of "The Scarlet Servant" have been sold in English in the world since 1985, according to a statement from the publishing house.
In two seasons, the television series has won six Emmy Awards, equivalent to the Oscars for American television, for 18 nominations. And a third season is in production.
Mrs. Atwood's editor points out that the book "The Wills" "is not related" to the television adaptation of The Scarlet Servant, who, in the second season, deviated from the original work.
© 2018 AFP
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