by Claude Gutman · Payot · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782228880008
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«La folle rumeur de Smyrne» is the historical fiction novel by Claude Gutman, published by Payot in paperback (283 pages, in French).
In 1687 Amsterdam, Josué Karillo is a respected physician who keeps two secrets: his admiration for the ideas of Descartes and Spinoza, and his atheism. The novel addresses identity, faith and philosophy in an era of intellectual and religious tensions, and follows the protagonist's inner conflicts without neglecting the social portrait of the time.
Published in 1988, it is a French-language edition from the Romans Payot collection, within literature and historical fiction.
For readers of historical fiction with an interest in philosophical and religious debates of the seventeenth century.
