Pierre Véry and the Science Fiction Short Story

Abstract

Pierre Véry’s short narrative work is not very large (only about 40 tales), but his contribution to the renovation of such coded genres as police novel and science-fiction is undeniable. The analysis of the texts in Tout doit disparaître le 5 mai, his posthumous volume of sci-fi stories, shows the originality of a narrative that explores new ways for the genre by the introduction of humor, combined to social criticism and a poetical sense of humanism.