Penguin Island (Mobi Classics)

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Author: Anatole France, A. W. Evans (Translator) ISBN: 9781607785439
Publisher: MobileReference Publication: January 1, 2010
Imprint: MobileReference Language: English
Author: Anatole France, A. W. Evans (Translator)
ISBN: 9781607785439
Publisher: MobileReference
Publication: January 1, 2010
Imprint: MobileReference
Language: English
Penguin Island (1908; French: L'Ile des Pingouins) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France.Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th and 19th century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island of penguins that exists on the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk accidentally lands on the island and sees the penguins as a sort of Greek pre-Christian pagan society. Partly blind, he mistakes the penguins for people and baptizes them. This mistake causes a problem for The Lord (God) who normally only allows people to be baptized, so he resolves it by converting the penguins to people and giving them a soul. Thus begins the penguin history and from there forward the history mirrors that of France (and largely Western Europe including Britain). From the Migration Period ("Dark Ages") when the Germanic tribes incessantly fought among one another for territory; to the heroic Early Middle Ages with the rise of Charlemagne ("Draco the Great") and conflicts with Viking raiders ("porpoises"); to the Renaissance (Erasmus); and up to the modern era with motor cars, and even a future time in which a thriving high-tech civilization is destroyed by a campaign of terrorist bombings, and everything starts again in an endless cycle.The longest chapter and probably most well known is a satire of the Dreyfus affair. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Penguin Island (1908; French: L'Ile des Pingouins) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France.Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th and 19th century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island of penguins that exists on the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk accidentally lands on the island and sees the penguins as a sort of Greek pre-Christian pagan society. Partly blind, he mistakes the penguins for people and baptizes them. This mistake causes a problem for The Lord (God) who normally only allows people to be baptized, so he resolves it by converting the penguins to people and giving them a soul. Thus begins the penguin history and from there forward the history mirrors that of France (and largely Western Europe including Britain). From the Migration Period ("Dark Ages") when the Germanic tribes incessantly fought among one another for territory; to the heroic Early Middle Ages with the rise of Charlemagne ("Draco the Great") and conflicts with Viking raiders ("porpoises"); to the Renaissance (Erasmus); and up to the modern era with motor cars, and even a future time in which a thriving high-tech civilization is destroyed by a campaign of terrorist bombings, and everything starts again in an endless cycle.The longest chapter and probably most well known is a satire of the Dreyfus affair. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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