George Sand

Both Gothic and philosophical, "Spiridion" tells the story of a young novice, Angel, who finds himself cruelly ostracized by his monastic superiors and terrified by the ghostly visits of his monastery s founder, the abbot Spiridion. Though he founded the monastery on the search for truth, Spiridion watched his once intelligent and virtuous monks degenerate into a cruel, mindless community. Turning away from the Church and withdrawing into his cell, he poured his energy into a manuscript that tells the truth about Roman Catholic doctrine and monastic life and provides a vision of a new and eternal gospel. The manuscript was buried with him, and his spirit now searches for a monk who is intelligent enough to exhume it from his crypt, which is guarded by hellish spirits, and share its vision with the world. Translated into English for the first time in more than 160 years, "Spiridion" offers a fierce critique of Catholic doctrine as well as solutions for living with the Church s teachings. Although Sand had broken with the Church several years earlier, she nevertheless continued to believe in an omnipotent God, and her novel makes the distinction, as Angel s protector, Father Alexis, puts it, between the authority of faith and the application of this authority in the hands of men. As translator Patricia J. F. Worth argues in her introduction, the novel s emphasis on freedom of inquiry, benevolence, and moral reform inspired other nineteenth-century writers, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Matthew Arnold, and Henry James, and the novel is also relevant to twenty-first-century discussions of religious authority and rigid adherence to doctrine."

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Ce joli conte de George Sand traite le th me du bien et du mal. Le jeune Gribouille, enfant doux et attentif, a quitt 12 ans ses parents, m chants et voleurs, et ses fr res et soeurs odieux avec lui, et a c d par trop de confiance au mal symbolis par M. Bourdon, le roi des insectes piqueurs, mais est revenu vite au bien symbolis par la reine des pr s et sa f e messag re. La morale du conte est que l'homme poss de en lui-m me le bien et le mal et que tout d pend de ses d cisions pour qu'il devienne bon et heureux ou m chant et vil.

George Sand est connue pour ses romans champ tres, tels que La Petite Fadette. Mais elle a galement crit plusieurs contes pour amuser et instruire ses petites-filles, et que nous retrouvons r unis ici. Destin es amuser et duquer l'enfant, en m lant merveilles et le ons, ces histoires sont de vraies merveilles. Du terrible G ant Y ous l'amusante F e aux gros yeux, de la trompeuse Reine Coax l' trange Ch ne parlant, on se r gale devant ces histoires crites d'une plume riche, l gante et captivante.