Péplum is a novel in French by the Belgian author Amélie Nothomb, first published in 1996 by Éditions Albin Michel.
This futuristic novel is presented as an autobiography.
She then meets Celsius, a mysterious scientist, who explains that between her surgery and the time she woke up 585 years have passed and it is now 2580.
A dialogue takes place between the young novelist and the scientist from the future, and they discuss numerous topics, such as the scarcity of energy resources, political systems, the classical authors, as well as philosophy and "the great war of the twenty-second century".
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