by Jean-Edern Hallier · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226026255
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«L'Évangile du fou» is the novel by French writer Jean-Edern Hallier, published by Albin Michel in paperback (438 pages, in French).
After a fire, the narrator takes on the promise to his mother to write about Charles de Foucauld. With the heroes of his childhood, he recreates the life of the aristocrat and officer who squandered his fortune before retiring to the Sahara to live with God and the Tuareg. Autobiography, biography and fantasy mix in a journey that affirms the author as a novelist.
The novel was published in 1986. The full title of the work is «L'Évangile du fou: Charles de Foucauld, le manuscrit de ma mère morte».
For readers of autobiographical fiction and contemporary French literature, with an interest in the figure of Charles de Foucauld.
Jean-Edern Hallier was a French writer, critic and publisher.
