Save our souls

Fulfill the Covenant of Mao Zedong - "Spiritual energy must be converted into energy material": a brilliant French scientist invented a way to extract energy from human souls. And yet for this "advanced fuels" struggling Americans, Chinese and Russians, Albanian dictator creates weapons of mass obestochivanija...
Romain Gary uses this fantastic story to have a good laugh over modern civilization, its politicians, scientists and the military, and to make an attempt to rehabilitate out of fashion, the word "soul".