New Rural Wave

What always impresses about Aurélie William Levaux is her incredible ability to cover a wide range of subjects and to approach all subjects in a chaos that is not that it appears; that she writes about education, Gaza, the yellow vests, NATO, scanners, BHL, and so on, it's always with the same feather, piquant, acid, starting from the smallest detail to take us a little further, even higher, where the outlines of things are more clearly visible. In New Rural Wave, she leaves the city to take refuge in the countryside, Haute-Patate, looking for… what exactly? Serenity? Tranquility ? But the author is still not appeased, nor even calmed, and her desire to taking the world as a punching bag remains intact. And so it is not certain, alas, that the countryside has remained untouched by the many calamities that rot life urban, and capitalism hurts, both in the city and in the countryside. In the form, New Rural Wave is distinguished by a greater mixture, juxtaposing texts, illustrations, but also comic strips. Basically, the book acts like a good big slap, not one that reddens the cheek, but rather one that helps to put ideas back in place.