Romain Gary. Save our souls

Mao Zedong's legacy—"Spiritual energy must be transformed into material energy"—has been fulfilled: a brilliant French scientist has invented a way to extract energy from human souls. And while the Americans, Chinese, and Russians compete for this "advanced fuel," the Albanian dictator is developing weapons of mass desouling...
Romain Gary uses this fantastic plot to have a good laugh at modern civilization, its politicians, scientists and military men, and to make an attempt to rehabilitate the word "soul", which has gone out of fashion.