by Pierre Péju · GALLIMARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070142033
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«L'état du ciel» is the contemporary novel by Pierre Péju, published by Gallimard in 2013 in paperback (272 pages, in French).
In a disordered sky, with God withdrawn from his creation, the angel Raphael, without mission or message, watches from his balcony Nora, a woman asleep in a house by a lake. The novel turns an ordinary dawn into a foundational scene and reflects on the divine and the everyday, chance and the possibility of a modest miracle.
The edition belongs to Gallimard's nrf collection.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction who appreciate intimate atmospheres and philosophical reflection.
Pierre Péju is a French philosopher, novelist and essayist. Born in Lyon, he studied at the Sorbonne. He has published a number of works in different literary genres, the best-known of which are two prize-winning novels Le rire de l’ogre and La petite Chartreuse. Both titles are studied in French schools and lycees, and both have been translated into English, the former by Euan Cameron and the latter by Ina Rilke.
