Balthasar

by Anatole France

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242 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1889

About the author

French critic Anatole France, pen name of Jacques Anatole François Thibault wrote sophisticated, often satirical short stories and novels, including 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, Le Parnasse Contemporain published La Part de Madeleine of his poems. In 1875, he sat on the committee in charge of the third such compilation. He moved Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé aside.

Skeptical old scholar Sylvester Bonnard, protagonist of famous Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), embodied own personality of the author. The academy praised its elegant prose.

Anatole France in La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedauque (1893) ridiculed belief in the occult and in Les Opinions de Jerome Coignard (1893) captured the atmosphere of the fin de siècle.

People elected him to the Académie française in 1896.
People falsely convicted Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, of espionage. Anatole France took an important part in the affair, signed manifesto of Émile Zola to support Dreyfus, and authored 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 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 Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books).

He died, and people buried his body in the Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris.

Reviews

[Sheggy · Rating 2 out of 5]

سِمبوبی تیس گفت: دانایی سرچشمه ی شادیست


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بالتازار گفت: من نیز با شما همسفرم، من بر شهوت خود غلبه کرده ام؛ از اینرو ستاره با من سخن گفته است
مِل کیور گفت: من بر غرور غلبه کرده ام و از اینرو خوانده شده ام
گاسپار گفت: من بر ستمگری خود غلبه کرده ام و از این لحاظ همراه خواهم آمد


مجموعه جالبی بود شامل: "بالتازار"، "مسیو پی ژنو"، "تخم مرغ قرمز"، "لیتا اسیلیا". ترجمه احمد جزایری خیلی هم روان نبود، گویا ناشر کتاب؛ مهر ایران بود. امیدوارم چاپ جدیدی با ترجمه بهتری هم موجود باشه. به هرحال قسمتهایی که انتخاب کردم همگی از داستان "بالتازار" هستن

[Ole Pogie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fantastic collection of seven short stories, Balthasar, The Cure's Mignonette, M. Pigeonneau, The Daughter of Lilith, Laeta Acilia, The Red Egg and Honey-Bee. The stories are all classic Anatole France at his best with his beautiful prose and subtle satirical humor. If I had to choose a favorite story it would be either Balthasar or M. Pigeonneau but really they are all outstanding. Actually, I had already read Honey-Bee before and it would have to be a contender for favorite also.