by Joseph Heller · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246346418
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«Dieu sait» is the satirical novel by Joseph Heller, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (449 pages, in French).
King David, on his deathbed, recalls his eventful life and dialogues with God with anachronistic, corrosive humor. Heller mixes cultured and everyday references to turn the biblical story into a satire on old age, love, war and Jewish identity, without forgoing irony or tenderness.
Translated from English (original title: God Knows), it received the Prix Médicis étranger in 1985.
A read for those who enjoy satire, irreverent reworkings of the Bible and Joseph Heller's mordant wit.
Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least twice, in 1972 and 1975.
