by Anatole France · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080705440
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«Dieux ont soif» is the historical novel by Anatole France, published by Flammarion in paperback (284 pages, in French).
Évariste Gamelin, a young idealistic painter, becomes a member of the Revolutionary Tribunal and ends up sending many accused to death, while his lover Élodie keeps alive a daily life that the Revolution does not crush. The work, set in Paris during the Terror, reflects on justice, fanaticism and the human cost of ideals.
Novel originally published in 1912; the GF Flammarion edition, prepared by Daniel Leuwers, bears the full title Les Dieux ont soif.
For readers of historical fiction and French classics, particularly for those who want to approach the French Revolution through a novel.
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".
