by Gérard Mordillat · Calmann-Lévy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702135389
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«Les vivants et les morts» is the novel by Gérard Mordillat, published in 2005 by Calmann-Lévy in hardcover (658 pages, in French).
The story follows Rudi and Dallas, two young employees at a plastic fiber factory, whose lives fall apart when the plant closes. With around fifty characters, the novel portrays the couple's love and the turmoil of a city shaken by unemployment, inequality and revolt, where financial logic crushes people.
The work was awarded the Grand Prix RTL-Lire 2005.
For readers of literary fiction interested in social novels about the working class, industrial crisis and its effects on everyday life.
