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Abbe Jules (Empire of the Senses) (original 1888; edition 1997)

by Octave Mirbeau, Nicoletta Simborowski (Translator)

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Part two of Octave Mirbeau's autobiographical trilogy, ABBE JULES tells of a priest's lifelong struggle with his passions. With the realism of Zola and the decadent vision of D'Aurevilly, and reflecting the impressionism of Monet, Pissaro and Van Gogh, Mirbeau's novel presents us with a small boy's vision of provincial France, where family, education and religion conspire to produce a petit bourgeois tortured by repressed desire, violent fantasies, and forbidden lusts.… (more)
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Title:Abbe Jules (Empire of the Senses)
Authors:Octave Mirbeau
Other authors:Nicoletta Simborowski (Translator)
Info:Dedalus, (1997), Paperback, 232 pages
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Jules non ha sentito la chiamata del Signore, ma si fa prete e fa "carriera", fino a quando le cose gli vanno bene...
E' spassosissimo l'incontro del Reverendo con l'eremita che riscostruisce la chiesa in rovina (portandogli via i soldi per la ricostruzione), ma tutto il libro è divertente.
Jules non è un esempio, ma vedendo la piccineria e la grettezza del paesino francese in cui è nato e cresciuto, osservando la stupidità e l'ipocrisia del clero con cui ha a che fare, mi è venuto spontaneo nutrire della simpatia per questo odiosetto prete bestemmiatore.
PS: i "Meluzzi" e le "Claudie Koll", nonché tutti i convertiti e cristiani rinati in genere NON SI FIDINO di chi, perfido ih ih, ha taggato questo libro come "Letteratura cristiana" e facciano pure a meno di leggere questo libro se non ammettono che possa esistere chi non crede e ritiene di potersi sfogare con una bestemmia liberatrice, se capita. ( )
  downisthenewup | Aug 17, 2017 |
I like the 10/18 series; easy to hold, good typography, nice parfum
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Part two of Octave Mirbeau's autobiographical trilogy, ABBE JULES tells of a priest's lifelong struggle with his passions. With the realism of Zola and the decadent vision of D'Aurevilly, and reflecting the impressionism of Monet, Pissaro and Van Gogh, Mirbeau's novel presents us with a small boy's vision of provincial France, where family, education and religion conspire to produce a petit bourgeois tortured by repressed desire, violent fantasies, and forbidden lusts.

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