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French critic Anatole France pen name of Jacques Anatole Fran ois Thibault wrote sophisticated often satirical short stories and novels including site_link Penguin Island 1908 and won the Nobel Prize of 1921 for literature Anatole France began his career as a poet and a journalist From 1867 he as a journalist composed articles and notices In 1869 site_link Le Parnasse Contemporain published site_link La Part de Madeleine of his poems In 1875 he sat on the committee in charge of the third such compilation He moved site_link Paul Verlaine and site_link St phane Mallarm aside Skeptical old scholar Sylvester Bonnard protagonist of famous site_link Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard 1881 embodied own personality of the author The academy praised its elegant prose Anatole French critic Anatole France pen name of Jacques Anatole Fran ois Thibault wrote sophisticated often satirical short stories and novels including site_link Penguin Island 1908 and won the Nobel Prize of 1921 for literature Anatole France began his career as a poet and a journalist From 1867 he as a journalist composed articles and notices In 1869 site_link Le Parnasse Contemporain published site_link La Part de Madeleine of his poems In 1875 he sat on the committee in charge of the third such compilation He moved site_link Paul Verlaine and site_link St phane Mallarm aside Skeptical old scholar Sylvester Bonnard protagonist of famous site_link Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard 1881 embodied own personality of the author The academy praised its elegant prose Anatole France in site_link La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque 1893 ridiculed belief in the occult and in site_link Les Opinions de Jerome Coignard 1893 captured the atmosphere of the fin de si cle People elected him to the Acad mie fran aise in 1896 People falsely convicted site_link Alfred Dreyfus a Jewish army officer of espionage Anatole France took an important part in the affair signed manifesto of site_link mile Zola to support Dreyfus and authored site_link Monsieur Bergeret in 1901 After the nearsighted Abbot Mael baptized the animals in error France in later work depicts the transformation into human nature in 1908 People considered most profound site_link La Revolte des Anges 1914 It tells of Arcade the guardian angel of Maurice d Esparvieu Arcade falls in love joins the revolutionary movement of angels and towards the end recognizes the meaningless overthrow of God unless in ourselves and in ourselves alone we attack and destroy Ialdabaoth People awarded him in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements characterized as they are by a nobility of style a profound human sympathy grace and a true Gallic temperament in 1921 In 1922 the Catholic Church put entire works of France on the site_link Index Librorum Prohibitorum Index of Prohibited Books He died and people buried his body in the Neuilly sur Seine community cemetery near Paris site_link Annotated Content This edition has been annotated with the following unique Historical contextDetailed 20th century analysis About The Revolt of the Angels No we will not conquer the heavens Enough to have the power War engenders war and victory defeat God conquered will become Satan Satan conquering will become God May the fates spare me this terrible lot Revolt of the Angels is a novel by French author Anatole France first published in 1914 This edition features the 1922 translation by Mrs Wilfrid Jackson The novel is a retelling of the classic story of the angelic war in Heaven between those led by Archangel Michael and fallen angel Satan It relates the tale of Arcade guardian angel of Maurice d Esparvieu a young and philandering aristocrat Upon reading the books in the celebrated d Esparvieu library Arcade discovers that God is not the creator of the Universe and disillusioned joins a rebellion of fallen angels seeking to overthrow the tyrannical demiurge The Revolt of the Angels The 1914 French Literature Classic Annotated home made 5 Kindle Edition Raining Angels in Paris and WashingtonCan there be such a genre biblical material excepted as the anticipatory allegory If so Revolt of the Angels could well be a prime example. The revolt of the angels book In this week s NYRB Nov 6 2017 Charles Simic has a piece commemorating Trump s election In it he puts Trump in a literary context The only character I can think of in the world literature who resembles Donald Trump is P re Ubu in the play Ubu Roi Ubu the King by Alfred Jarry that famously opened and closed in Paris on December 10 1896 after starting a riot A parody of Shakespeare s Macbeth Ubu is a buffoonish pretender to the throne of Poland a brutal and greedy megalomaniac who after killing off the royal family starts murdering his own population in order to rob them of their money. The revolt of the angels book I think Simic is exactly right to place Trump historically in the French Third Republic and not just because of his Ubu esque personality In fin de siecle France Politics are polarised Religious belief is a defining issue Racism is on the rise Freedom defined to suit is the rallying cry of both Right and Left Terrorism is on everyone s mind Fake news is the only kind there is The foundations of the democratic state seem less than they have been in decades The Revolution has been betrayed and the Nation belittled. The revolt of the angels book Revolt of the Angels is a parody of this tumultuous period But frightenly I find it is also a very precise allegory of today s USA written a century before events The characters and plot seem out of the Trumpian playbookThe Angels in question mostly guardian and therefore the alter egos of the individuals they protect have decided to mount a Miltonian rerun of the abortive insurrection by Lucifer The Manichaean demiurge against whom they fight is Ialdabaoth Obama Heaven is the realm of the Democrats who have had their unjustifiable way for far too long earth is the territory of the Republican angelic guardians of freedom and independence from external rule. The revolt of the angels book The ringleaders are Arcade and Istar respectively Steve Bannon and Vladimir Putin who plan to destroy the existing order one merely the republican earthly order but the other the heavenly democratic order as well that is the entire governmental system These two arrange for the election of the angel Nectaire Trump himself as President and Contradictor despite his lack of previous military governmental or even political experience. The revolt of the angels pdf Many other supporting characters are identifiable the female angel Zita the inimitable Sarah Palin who has already been abed with some of the other guardian angels the financing angel Sophar Robert Mercer Breitbart investor and Trump supporter the Archangel Michael Robert Mueller defender of heavenly interests the unnamed earth bound angel still loyal to God Jeff Flake of course attacked mercilessly by the rest Monsieur Sariette Trump s personal lawyer Michael Cohen who knows where all the bodies are buried but this could also be Attorney General Jeff Sessions who fits the description of a wizened gnome exactly not forgetting the religious support of the Abb Patouille a French facsimile of Jerry Falwell. The revolt of the angels pdf The plan is simple Our project Istar said is a vast one It embraces both Heaven and Earth It is settled in every detail We shall first bring about a social revolution this is facilitated by the lack of discernment among the mass of the human population in a country where the climate is soft and existence made easy Even here where necessity calls for intellectual activity nothing is rarer than a person who thinks. The revolt of the angels book Consequently the situation is ripe Beneath an apparently unchangeable exterior all is rotten within A mere push would suffice to overturn an edifice which has not been touched for millions of centuries Out worn administration out worn army out worn finance the whole thing is worm eaten than either the Russian or Persian autocracy. The revolt of the angels book One might surmise that the execution of such a project demands some level of familiarity with military tactics But one would be wrong becauseThe multiplication of technical means by infinitely multiplying the opportunities for mistake paralyses the genius of those in command At a certain stage in the progress of military science a stage which our models are about to reach the cleverest leader and the most ignorant become equalized by reason of their incapacity. The revolt of the angels pdf Great numbers in war as elsewhere annihilate intelligence and individual superiority in favour of a sort of exceedingly rudimentary collective soul In short Trump and Kim Jung Un seem well matched After all as everyone knows deep down a war is a matter of business. The revolt of the angels book Unlike the first time round the rebellious angels do succeed in the divine overthrow Satan becomes God But who could have thought anything else nothing substantive changes in either heaven or earth Those in charge have those not in charge to worry about thus the perpetual cycle of cosmic as well as national politics. The revolt of the angels book Now of course all this could be merely a product of my inflamed imagination Trump may well have succeeded in mortally infecting my own discernment through his continual pervasive rhetoric But there is also the possibility that the entirety of the political events in America is following a perennial script one not necessarily invented but certainly articulated by Anatole France Just sayin Kindle Edition I read this book as part of my Nobel Prize for Literature Awardees reading list As it turned out it is one the longest list I will ever try to finish Sometimes I too wonder where I found the audacity to attempt to foray in this kind of reading list The Revolt of the Angels is my initial foray into Anatole France s works which definitely is not my last one It was not his first as France was apparently a poet and a journalist too but is considered to be his most profound novel I was a sucker for riveting titles and killer first lines so I picked this book and read And read I did Anatole France born 16 April 1844 and died 12 October 1924 was a French poet journalist and novelist His was a lifetime of books The family business was a bookstore one which arguably could be the best environment to raise a future Nobel Prize awardee He was schooled in a private Catholic institution which lends credulity to the fact that Anatole France was one hell of a radical as exacerbated by his writings The rest as one would say is history He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 Shortly in 1922 as a response by the institution we all know as the Roman Catholic Church all his works were banned through the Prohibited Books Index a list which has been abolished since 1966 and contained the likes of Sartre Rousseau Voltaire Descartes Locke Hume Galileo to name a few Oh what a delight that list was The book itself was written in 1914 a time when France was besieged by the incoming Germanic invasion brought around by the First World War and was troubled at home by the numerous Socialist objections What dominated this part of French history however was the power struggle between the Church and the State one that is contained in this exceptional book and which probably served as the backbone for this exceptional work Overly simplifying this dialectical issue the struggle existed because the Church is seen to be representing the archaic system of institution embodied by the Monarchy against the desire of the Republicans who utterly detested political and class affiliations that are perpetuated by these monarchies So from here Anatole France wrote I obtained my FREE e book copy through Project Gutenberg and was translated from the original French by Frederic Chapman Apparently licenses on century old books do not exist As expected of a work in the early 1900s a lot of old English words and ones derived from both Latin and French were used like architrave frieze verbena narcissi demiurge though let that not deter you from missing on this work The prose is beautiful as expected from an Nobel Awardee Revolt of the Angels tells us of the story of Arcade a Guardian Angel the lowest caste of the nine tiered order of these heavenly beings It narrates his pursuit of knowledge and how such knowledge led to become the foundation with which he challenge GOD or as he called it the DEMIURGE the creator of the material world or Ialdabaoth Yes this is the same GOD most Christian churches would profess belief to The book further tells us how he conspired with other fallen guardian angels and plotted the overthrow of Ialdabaoth Intertwined with Arcade s story is Maurice s plight of losing his guardian angel his dishonor and fornication to which a certain extent Anatole France himself engaged in The novel s theme perhaps lies in the age old philosophical conundrum of knowledge or science pitted against religion Perhaps this conundrum is epitomized by Arcade s statement When the angels possess some notions of physics chemistry astronomy and physiology when the study of matter shows them worlds in an atom and an atom in the myriads of planets when they see themselves lost between these two infinities when they weigh and measure the stars analyse their composition and calculate their orbits they will recognize that these monsters work in obedience to forces which no intelligence can define or that each star has its particular divinity or indigenous god and they will realize that the gods of Aldebaran Betelgeuse and Sirius are greater than Ialdabaoth 39 What comes across to me however is that we human individuals are like Arcade like these Angels in revolt We seek the truth behind things We learn and learn and still crave for knowledge But to where does this knowledge lead us To me too at the same time we are Maurice Just like him we all seem to have fallen into a trap We love life itself so much that we fear losing it that in any semblance of hope or continuity we have sometimes turned to belief in numerous institutions uncritical and na ve That instead of uplifting the human soul we have formed for ourselves unbreakable shackles that continue to limit our perception of the world I sought out the laws which govern nature solid or ethereal and after much pondering I perceived that the Universe had not been formed as its pretended Creator would have us believe I knew that all that exists exists of itself and not by the caprice of Iahveh that the world is itself its own creator and the spirit its own God Henceforth I despised Iahveh for his imposture and I hated him because he showed himself to be opposed to all that I found desirable and good liberty curiosity doubt 139 But what does exactly limit our perception Is it really a religion a church a system of belief Is it not fear and ignorance that severely limits human understanding and compassion so much so that in the first place no actual conflict exists between these forces Is knowledge really the answer What does this knowledge refer to In the closing part of the book when the Army has been assembled and Arcade went to ask Satan to lead the army on their march Satan said this in response As to ourselves celestial spirits sublime demons we have destroyed Ialdabaoth our Tyrant if in ourselves we have destroyed Ignorance and Fear We were conquered because we failed to understand that Victory is a Spirit and that it is in ourselves and in ourselves alone that we must attack and destroy Ialdabaoth 292 The beauty of this statement lies in its verisimilitude Our demons are given birth by ignorance It is nurtured by fear and is encouraged by blind obedience These demons have always been personal in nature Yet the discrepancy in societal response has become fundamental in nature We have raised countless institutions that are impersonal and by being so wholly unresponsive And vital to all of this we fail to recognize that it is in ourselves and in ourselves alone that we must attack and destroy Ialdabaoth 292 I have left the institutional church long ago embarking on a personal attempt in understanding things In a sense I have aspired to be spiritual without being religious and have met a great many debates and contest on this aspect Since then however I have struggled to conquer my own demons I have sought to eradicate cynicism and suspicion in receiving and responding to others and have tried to look for that piece of kindness in everybody The first step is always recognizing that perhaps the fault lies in ourselves for this too is the hardest step to make. The revolt of the angels book This here is a good book It may literally challenge fundamental beliefs of the religious institution but what it truly offers is a much needed case of retrospection and examination which doesn t hurt to engage in once in a while I would recommend it to everyone except that one should still take caution choosing whom you recommend it too Perhaps if you enjoyed this book like me a similar theme albeit carried in another plot was written by Jose Saramago yet another Nobel Prize awardee entitled The Gospel According to Jesus Christ 3 STARS Other Books by Anatole France Penguin Island 3 Stars This book forms part of my remarkably extensive reading list on Nobel Prize for Literature AwardeesThis review has been cross posted at i mbookedindefinitely Kindle Edition Kindle Edition 1921 1913 XVII Kindle Edition

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Kindle Edition Anatole France Kindle Edition a esp cie de verdade que se encontra nos livros uma verdade que nos faz entrever por vezes como as coisas n o s o sem nunca nos levar a descobrir como elas s o. The revolt of the angels pdf Um anjo da guarda com acesso a uma biblioteca privada com trezentos e sessenta mil livros tem como resultado um anjo livre e esclarecido que planeia uma revolta para destituir o pai celeste do seu cargo que ser ocupado por Sat A guerra gera a guerra e a vit ria a derrota Deus vencido tornar se Sat Sat vencedor tornar se Deus. The revolt of the angels book A Revolta dos Anjos um romance muito divertido que critica a religi o e a pol tica e glorifica a intelig ncia e o conhecimento os tiranos s ser o destru dos quando tivermos destru do em n s pr prios a ignor ncia e o medo. The revolt of the angels book _____________Pr mio Nobel da Literatura 1921Anatole France nasceu em Fran a Paris em 16 de abril de 1844 e morreu em Fran a em 12 de outubro de 1924 Admirado por Marcel Proust 1871 1922 considerado um dos modelos para a personagem Bergotte de Em Busca do Tempo Perdido Kindle Edition This is a book that could only have been written in France And poor Anatole France got on the Catholic Church s Index of Forbidden Books for his efforts The Revolt of the Angels is not really a work of irreligion as it is of gentle irony. The revolt of the angels book It all starts when Arcade the guardian angel of Maurice d Esparvieu starts reading books in the famed d Esparvieu library and decides that the God whom he served was actually a demiurge named Ialdabaoth He enlists other angels who are living among men to join him and with the collaboration of Satan storm Heaven At one point Arcade is upbraided by one of his fellow rebels We are on the eve of surprising Ialdabaoth in his palace of porphyry and you who are burning to deliver the heavens who were so eager to enter in triumph into your emancipated country you suddenly forget your noble purpose and fall asleep in the arms of the daughters of men What pleasure can you find in intercourse with these unclean little animals composed as they are of elements so unstable that they may be said to be in a state of constant evanescence O Arcade I was indeed right to distrust you, The revolt of the angels pdf There is indeed a gentle Gallic touch to this revolt It s interesting that the Church took such offense to it Kindle Edition Kindle Edition.