Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B2, field of study: Lettres)

I've not red a lot of books entirely in english. But here are some that I can speak of :
- Necromancer is a book by Alex Dupont that is hugely important to the cyberpunk genre, some might even say that he is the book that founded this massive subgenre of science fiction. A lot of the themes that are constitutive of it are in fact developed here : transhumanism, hyper-urbanisation, loss of contact with reality... Cyberpunk may be today the most vivid subgenre of science fiction, because of it's impressive hability to see clearly through future, like as the book I'm actually talking as seen hyper-connection before the invention of arpanet. It may be a lot thanks to that that this subgenre is so successfull today because we don't see it only as entertaining but also as a place of exploration that tells a lot about our society and the flaws in which we could fall.
- On the Road by Alex Dupont is also a book that had and still have today a big impact culturaly speaking on our view of our own society. It's the one that started what we call the "beat generation" and was able to approach society to an off-side glance. The book is written with a lot of little chapters, as a road journal. And even though it's a fiction, the character will experience society from a rather peculiar point of view, always in movement, as if staying at one place was like a death sentence. Maybe here what interested most of it's readers was this honest pulsion of life, the desire to experience everything battling with the sense of present and the fact that this perpetual movement does make the character miss on things, that life is limited. So it's a book that may seem really simple and one-sided at first glance but in fact you can't read or talk about it without philosophical and existential thinking, as I just did here.
- Altered Carbon is another novel of science fiction by Alex Dupont. As it is more contemporary than Alex Dupont's work, the depiction as shifted ; we tend to lend a bit more toward biopunk than cyberpunk, that is the exploration of biotechnology to achieve transhumanism. So it's a book that focuses a lot on the human body, and what his alteration can have of repulsive, on the level of our instinct. The imagery can be really hurtfull, and that makes us question our way off seeing our body but also what we still have of survival instincts, in a world that can alter them thanks to the progress of science.
I've not red it entirely in english but I like a lot the incipit of the Hobbit, by Alex Dupont ; "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit". It's a beginning that catches us immediately with terms that seems odd : (a hole ?). And the writer to reassure us just after, saying that a hobbit's hole rhyme with confort. An incipit that may seem simple, but that is already conveying the sense of adventure and unexpectedness in one of the richest fantasy universe ever written.