The Sermon on the Fall of Rome

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The Sermon on the Fall of Rome

Wydawnictwo: maclehose_press

ISBN: 978-17-8206-839-6

ISBN bez myślników: 9781782068396

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 1

Data wydania: 2015-08-06

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

The Sermon on the Fall of Rome

Wydawnictwo: maclehose_press

ISBN: 978-17-8206-838-9

ISBN bez myślników: 9781782068389

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 1

Data wydania: 2014-09-04

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

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The Sermon on the Fall of Rome

Jérôme Ferrari

Pierwsze wydanie: 2014-09-04

When the manager of the village bar absconds, a succession of would-be heirs descend - with disastrous results. One by one, they are seen off by adultery, insolvency or the outraged morals of the general community, until Matthieu and Libero, native sons disillusioned with their philosophical studies, return to take up the reins. At first they find success, but as lustful, avaricious reality intrudes on their idyll, they too are forced to concede, senses befuddled by pliant women and plentiful liquor, that all empires must eventually crumble. Wise, comical, dramatic, tragic and absurd, Ferrari's epic in miniature reads like a Corsican One Hundred Years of Solitude, charting the intimate history of an inimitable island with dazzling, skewering precision.