by Anatole France · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475303529
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«El crimen de un académico» is the novel by Anatole France, published by Orbis in hardcover (191 pages, in Spanish).
The elderly scholar Sylvestre Bonnard seeks an ancient ecclesiastical document, a commission that takes him from Paris to Sicily and brings back memories of his life. Moved by justice and affection, the protagonist comes to act on the edge of the law.
Original title: Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881). Anatole France won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921. Orbis edition in the Nobel Prize collection, no. 55 (1983).
For readers of classic novels and 19th-century French literature; also for those seeking erudite protagonists and journeys.
Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament".
