La Guerre des mouches

La Guerre des mouches is a French novel by Jacques Spitz, affiliated with the literary genre scientific marvel, which was initially published in serial form in 1937 in the weekly magazine Regards.

[3] The novel narrates, through the eyes of Juste-Évariste Magne, a young researcher in natural sciences, the appearance of a new species of flies in Indochina, in the late 1930s.

[1] Written at the end of the 1930s, the novel deals with a classic science fiction theme, that of animals becoming intelligent and then fighting humanity for supremacy on the planet.

[3] Because it is part of a satirical trend that has been running through the literature of scientific imagination since the beginning of the 20th century, this anticipation story is for Jacques Spitz a pretext for taking a critical look at his present.

Indeed, the invasion of the flies is only an allegorical representation of the rise of Nazism, in front of which the European democracies kneaded in their nationalisms find themselves unable to organize.