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Penguin Island de Anatole France

Penguin Island

Autor Anatole France
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2005
Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault; 1844-1924. Member of the Académie Française. Awarded the Nobel Price for Literature in 1921. Penguin Island (1908) has been called "the best social satire ever written" (Toni Ungerer). The story takes place in Antarctica, where a fictional penguin population mirrors the foibles of human beings. With the devil's help, a missionary arrives in Antartica and baptizes the local penguins. With God's help, he then turns them into human beings. As a result, the penguins must now try to figure out how to live together and create a civilization. They experience their own barbaric Ancient Times and Middle Ages, and in their efforts to create a modern age, they undergo social conflicts and devastating wars. Written in the spirit of rationalism and enlightenment,Penguin Island is a wickedly funny, incisive portrait of religious fanatacism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781595690296
ISBN-10: 1595690298
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 139 x 212 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Mondial
Locul publicării:United States

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Called "the best social satire ever written" (Toni Ungerer), this story examines a fictional penguin population that mirrors the foibles of human beings and provides a wickedly funny, incisive portrait of religious fanaticism.

Notă biografică

Jordan Finkin is a scholar-librarian with a distinguished career at the intersection of Jewish studies, literary scholarship, and academic librarianship. He has held teaching and research appointments at institutions including Oxford and Harvard Universities, and currently serves as Deputy Director of Libraries and Rare Book and Manuscript Librarian at Hebrew Union College. His academic work focuses on Yiddish and Hebrew literature, modernist poetics, and translation, and his publications include translations of Mikhoel Burshtin's By the Rivers of Mazovia (2023), Siegfried Kapper's Tales from the Prague Ghetto (2021), and From the Jewish Provinces: Stories by Fradl Shtok (with Allison Schachter, 2021), which won the Modern Language Association's Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies.