The uprising of the angels. France A.

Anatol France (1844–1924) - French writer, literary critic and public figure, Nobel Laureate of Literature (1921) for “brilliant literary achievements marked by the sophistication of style, deeply suffered by humanism and truly Gallic temperament.”

“The uprising of the Angels” is a fantastic novel published in 1914. The plot is built around the adventures of both ordinary inhabitants of Paris in the beginning of the twentieth century, and angels who conceive a revolution in heaven. The adventures of angels in Paris of the times of the Third Republic are used by the author for strict social criticism, directed primarily against the church and militarism. In this novel, the writer anticipated the beginning of the greatest social cataclysms and timed up the apocalyptic drama in heaven to seemingly ordinary earthly year.