Sunday, September 2, 2018

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Anatole France's first novel, published in 1881, traces the intersection of a bookish, moral man with a young woman in trouble. With deep understanding of human nature and luminous prose, France thus begins a literary journey that would conclude with the Nobel Prize in 1921. The "crime" of the titular Bonnard is an example of France's irony par excellence.

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