The reader is advised to refrain from believing that this is a true story, or that it is based on any known reality. No, in truth, everything has been invented, the characters, the events, and all the rest, and the proof of this is that the story is set in a distant world, in a distant future that looks nothing like our own.
This is a work of pure invention: the world of Bigaye that I describe in these pages does not exist and has no reason to exist in the future, just as the world of Big Brother imagined by George Orwell, and so marvelously depicted in his novel 1984, did not exist in his time, does not exist in our own, and truly has no reason to exist in the future. Sleep soundly, good people, everything is sheer falsehood, and the rest is under control.