Böcker av Anatole France

CONTENTSThe Procurator of JudæaAmycus and CelestineThe Legend of Saints Oliveria and LiberettaSt. EuphrosineScholasticaOur Lady's JugglerThe Mass of ShadowsLeslie WoodGestasThe Manuscript of a Village DoctorMemoirs of a VolunteerDawnMadame de LuzyThe Boon of Death BestowedA Tale of the Month of Floréal in the Year IIThe Little Leaden Soldier Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life.

Described by Charles T. Wood, co-editor of Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc, as "the classic skeptic's account, usually underrated on that account, but very solidly based in all the documents that it also has the virtue of quoting extensively. Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life. In the 1920 his writings were put on the Index of Forbidden Books of the Roman Catholic Church.

CONTENTSPrefaceNicolas FoucquetThe Chateau de VauxAnatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life.

The comedy of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife was written, or at least begun, merely to entertain the members of the "Society of Rabelaisian Studies" at one of their meetings. But it succeeded so well that it was at once taken up by a regular theatre, the Porte-Saint-Martin, in the spring of 1912, and again at the Theatre de la Renaissance in the autumn. Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life.

Benefiting from Anatole France's meticulous historical research, this fascinating and timeless novel sheds light on a complex world of rival factions and institutions of state terror and vividly portrays the lives and psyches of ordinary people who are complicit in acts of public barbarity.

It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Paris swept by fear and hunger lives Gamelin, a revolutionary young artist appointed magistrate, and given the power of life and death over the citizens of France. But his intense idealism and unbridled single-mindedness drive him inexorably towards catastrophe. Published in 1912, The Gods Will Have Blood is a breathtaking story of the dangers of fanaticism, while its depiction of the violence and devastation of the Reign of Terror is strangely prophetic of the sweeping political changes in Russia and across Europe.

De verkliga historiska händelserna i Dreyfusaffären, där en fransk-judisk man blev oskyldigt anklagad för landsförräderi, utgör bakgrunden till Anatole Frances skildring av den franska landsbygdens antisemitism och småsinthet. Läsaren får möta en mängd karaktärer i den lilla staden, från den komiska fru Bergeret till den uppblåste biskopen Guitrel. En roman om den vanliga människans roll i det stora sammanhanget, av nobelpristagaren Anatole France. I originalöversättning av Karin JensenAnatole France (1844-1924) var en fransk poet, romanförfattare och journalist. Han tilldelades Nobelpriset 1921 för sin stilkonst och humanitet.

I 1700-talets Paris arbetar huvudpersonen Jacques som stekvändare i sin fars stekstuga Drottning Gåsfot. När stekstugan en dag får besök av abbé Coignard får Jacques ett erbjudande: mot fri mat ska abbén undervisa honom i latin, grekiska och kristendom. Det visar sig att den försupne abbén har minst sagt okonventionella föreställningar om vad ett kristet leverne innebär. Tillsammans stöter de på en mängd bisarra figurer, alla med sina egna säregna idéer om samhället, livet och historien.Drottning Gåsfot är nobelpristagaren Anatole Frances mest älskade och spridda verk. Här i en hyllad översättning av Hjalmar Söderberg.