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The Amethyst Ring
Anatole France
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An enjoyable enough little read, but I’m very confused as to what the plot was. Seeing it described on this site (I was reading a copy from 1927, so there was no synopsis.), I think I can appreciate more what it was trying to do, but I was confused the entire time I was reading.
The review from "gwan" may put you off. It gives a very bleak picture indeed. So bleak as to be quite misleading. Mr France often confuses and without a good knowledge of French history and generally one often shakes one's head. "Gwan' is still shaking his apparently. The book , notwithstanding some
I've a set of the delightful Random House Anatole France novels,printed in the 1920's, sitting on my shelf for years and chose to read the Amethyst Ring. It's an excoriating satire on the Catholic church, provincial French society and shambles, virulent anti-semitism. as he Dreyfus Affair rages. A u
Another excellent subtle (and sometime not so subtle) satire in which Anatole France takes on his usual subject of religion (mostly Catholicism) as well as antisemitism and French society in general. France again uses his alter-ego M. Bergeret to express many of his own views. The thing I especially