Disorder

“With a cold humor and serial neutrality worthy of the Marquis de Sade, Leslie Kaplan recounts incidents of sudden and ‘inexplicable’ violence that take place one spring, all over France. This fable about the movement of the yellow vests perfectly and artfully captures the mystery of any movement’s essential ingredient: each discrete and individual act of rage.” —Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers

“In Disorder, a decapitating political fable, Leslie Kaplan invents the "class crime”... Putting words to everyday situations of domination, [she] inscribes a joyfully emancipatory text, a pathway to the literary act that suggests that another world is possible.” — L’Humanité

“An unexplained movement, assassinations without a plan, and this cry: "Stop the bullshit!"... In Disorder, a short, exhilarating story, novelist Leslie Kaplan tells the fable of today's uprisings. Where, without ever saying it directly, laughter wears the color yellow.” —Médiapart

“Without consulting each other, without obeying any call-to-arms, in all regions, people become criminals: they shamelessly get rid of their immediate superiors ... Disorder is a fable. Far from being a call to murder, as you might think, it is about cheerfully shaking off the yoke.” — Libération