The author, btw, is a Vietnam-American who grew up in Paris
Yes, I am aware. That makes it worse. I could understand a non-French author accidentally stumbling into classist French tropes; I'm less understanding when a French author does so.
Even accepting that the classism is deliberate (which would be more believable if it weren't borne out by the narrative), there is still the matter of the research being bad. The périphérique began construction in 1956 which, if I'm reading the novel's timeline right, is 30+ years after the Fallen nuked. How, exactly, is the périph supposed to have happened, then?
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Date: 2015-10-15 03:11 pm (UTC)Yes, I am aware. That makes it worse. I could understand a non-French author accidentally stumbling into classist French tropes; I'm less understanding when a French author does so.
Even accepting that the classism is deliberate (which would be more believable if it weren't borne out by the narrative), there is still the matter of the research being bad. The périphérique began construction in 1956 which, if I'm reading the novel's timeline right, is 30+ years after the Fallen nuked. How, exactly, is the périph supposed to have happened, then?