3 Revolutionary Books That Will Change Your Vision Of The Future
“Living without reading is dangerous, you have to be content with life, and this involves considerable risks.”. This sentence by Michel Houellebecq perfectly portrays life without reading. Precisely for this reason, today we want to offer you a series of revolutionary books that will change your vision of the future. Read on?
Reading is a wonderful passion, very useful as a pastime. It is also good to inculcate this passion in children, so that they know fantastic, happy and ironic worlds.
Nonetheless, there comes a time when every reader feels the need to go further. Have you ever been looking for more than a book, a movie or a magazine? Has there been no book, film or work of art that has turned your way of seeing things upside down?
Revolutionary books throughout history
In the history of humanity, there are many revolutionary books that have been written and that have broken conventions and patterns. Perhaps for the time, for the content or for the language used they were not free from censorship and misunderstanding.
We can think of poignant works such as The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli or Charles Darwin’s The Origin of the Species . And how can we forget the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. We could also remember Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron .
The books we have named are just the tip of the iceberg. Fortunately, today there are still writers who are able to activate a powerful alarm clock that can bring us out of hibernation. Authors who manage to move our soul and make us rethink the way we plan our life. Below we will talk about them and their works.
Submission of Michel Houellebecq
Let’s start by citing a controversial writer and poet: Michel Houellebecq. It seems appropriate to start the list with his latest work, “Submission”. It is a story misinterpreted by most of the readers.
In his work, Houellebecq speaks of a tired and accommodating society as well as of a moderate Islamist party reaching power in France. However, many have tried to see in this book a portrait against Muslims and their traditions.
However, the author uses the image of a party winning power as a spring to talk about a numb and bourgeois French society. In reality, Houellebecq portrays with coldness and sadness a people who seem to have lost the reins of the situation for the moment. The French accept whatever comes, without reflecting or demonstrating critical skills. A portrait of today’s apathetic Europe? Maybe.
Michael Lewis’ big bet
Let’s now discover, with “The big bet”, another controversial story about our times. Through a series of real characters, who went into their world and market, Michael Lewis shows us a stingy society that eagerly craves power.
However, the chronicle of the 2008 crisis, which ended the lives of so many people around the planet, is just an excuse. Lewis, through powerful prose and a cynical tone, shows us money-hungry beings so brutal that they have totally forgotten the importance of values.
The saddest aspect of “The Big Bet” is that Lewis himself doesn’t bet on humanity. The ending of this book teaches us that, despite the passage of time, a small elite will take advantage of all the others, while the wheel does not stop spinning.
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
We conclude the trilogy with a historical comic by Marjane Satrapi. The work is titled “Persepolis”. Among its pages, we discover the misadventures of an Iran in which the most radical Islam penetrates and undermines itself with force.
Satrapi tells his epic to leave a country in which a “dishonest” coup by the US secret services destroys a legitimate popular government. As a result, indignation takes hold of the nation, giving rise to religious radicalism.
As you can see, revolutionary books can be great for awakening consciences. Read them, because once you do, you will be different: you will change from the first capital letter of the book to the final point.
