Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, 'The Gods Want Blood' centres on the rise to power of Jacobin sympathizer Evariste Gamelin, a young painter who becomes a juror on a local Revolutionary tribunal. Caught up in the bloodthirsty madness surrounding him, he helps to dispense cruel justice in the name of his ideals, while at the same time succumbing to his own petty instincts of revenge when he jealously pursues a rival for the affections of his lover Elodie.
Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, 'The Gods Want Blood' centres on the rise to power of Jacobin sympathizer Evariste Gamelin, a yo...
Anatole France: Die Gotter dursten Les dieux ont soif. Erstdruck 1912. Hier in der Ubersetzung von Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski. Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Jacques-Louis David, Schwurgericht vom 20. Juni 1789, 1791. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt."
Anatole France: Die Gotter dursten Les dieux ont soif. Erstdruck 1912. Hier in der Ubersetzung von Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski. Vollstandige Neua...
