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The Sermon on the Fall of Rome
Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome
Jérôme Ferrari (born 1968)
Translated by Geoffrey Strachan
English editions
In EnglishThe Sermon on the Fall of Rome
MacLehose Press · United Kingdom · 2014 · 234 pages
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Two young men from a remote Corsican village drop their philosophy degrees on the mainland to take over the local bar, aiming, in Leibniz's spirit, to make it a perfect little world. Soon evil itself is drinking at the counter and old wounds reopen. Echoing Augustine's sermon at Hippo on the fall of Rome, the novel considers how every human world is fated to fall.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 201 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France
- First published
- 2012 by Actes Sud
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9782330012595 (original)
9780857052902 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)
- More
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