Read in French (La rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque)

A little confusing at first, then more and more sparkling
Narrated with a little je ne sais quoi of "Candide" (Voltaire), that is a slight ironic distance, Anatole France tells us with an equal tone about sleazy stories of salamanders, Bible, anecdot

„ Numele provine de la regina franceză care a avut degetele la picioare unite cu o membrană, ca laba gâștei. Cartea este pătrunsă de o filozofie dublă a vieții: cea reală și cea denaturată, care dorește „a întoarce sfintele scripturi cu capul în jos“, după cum ne lămurește ilustrul autor. Eroii roma

Le trait souvent poussé à l'extrême, du burlesque savouré grâce à la remarquable écriture d'Anatole France.

This was a strange read for me.

Here we have this young, impressionable man who's pushed towards a life of religious learning, mentored by men of the cloth who are every bit of religious as they are dissolute. It had all the premises of a funny book, I just wished it would have left that impression

Anatole France is an absolute master at writing religious satire. He points out the absurdity of much of the thinking and practices of religion using a very subtle and dry humor, although at times it becomes outrightly hilarious. This book follows young Jacques, the son of a meat seller, who at the

Κυκλοφόρησε στα Ελληνικά ως "Το ψητοπωλείο της βασίλισσας Πεντώκ", εκδόσεις Γράμματα.

- German translation "Die Bratküche zur Königin Pedauque" by Paul Wiegler -

Jacques, the son of a womanizing roast-meat seller and his simple but practical wife, is recalling the wild months in his youth when he left home to become a scribe. Initially educated by a dissolute capucin monk, Jacques is