preface to "THE REVOLT OF THE ANGELS"
Anatole France, translated by Luigi De Mauri, preface by Roberto Saviano
Health, or Satan's rebellion
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avenging force of reason!
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While half the lands of Europe were sore of trenches and preparing for the great national slaughter of World War I, France was published the novel La Revolte des Anges. The septuagenarian Anatole France had begun to write the pages of his novel disturbed by nationalist songs, by an unpredictable warlike frenzy, disgusted by the daily surges of patriotism and military parades. He decided to collect in his mind a vast project, ambitious, able not only to stem, at least in the scope of the paper, the military and nationalist idiocy, but to engage with his writing the entire universal order of things. Too great was the disaster in a few months would have been celebrating in order to look fragments of biographical literature of intimate records of soft and romantic. He wrote the origin of the time, rewrote the primeval battle between the armies of the angels of God and the rebellious angels organized by Lucifer, he argued, the theories and motives of the revolt, tried to understand the causes of the defeat of the rebellious troops and the skill of the winners. He proposed a new interpretation of the history of human civilization, found a new meaning to the religious order, the probe and described the structure of the heavens, tried to nail the monotheistic God in front of his irreparable guilt. All this by obtaining the France using imaginative literature as a laboratory able to subsume any term without any rule and all knowledge.
The revolt of the angels is a text that brings together tradition dell'angelistica school, biblical episodes, influences Gnostic Manichean leads, suggestions ordinary, common misconceptions about angels and demons. The novel succeeds in titanic undertaking to overthrow the categories of theology and politics through the shaping of literary as possible. Imagination disposes of its metaphysical substance and in the pages of France takes on a palpable concreteness. The dream to reformulate their lives, to expose the marrow of nature and the reality of things becomes real through the constructive power of words. The literature, although free from falsehood to be true when the role of procurer retires between reality and fiction, reality feral attacks transforming the structure molecular compositions of matter in radically new, made possible only by reason enough to be thinkable. In this novel
France discusses the merits of God, the rightness of his action on the fallacy of its decisions, the brutality of life as it was organized. Because death, illness, pain? Because of the fragility of the body, the necessity of work, the pain of childbirth? No more seeking, religiously, the reasons for the pain, the meaning of suffering to find solace, no longer understand their devotion to the divine will nor comply with the laws of the Book. Attack the source of the order of life is the task of the pages of Anatole France, writing a phenomenology of the good life is the method that uses bellicose. Atheism becomes a militant battle against the divine power, a rational and passionate revolt against the lies that God makes men as truth.
France tells of the angels, created beings to preserve the order of God, rejecting their task became terrible rebels. The good angel is an everlasting life through the unconscious knowledge that breaks his chains, aware that he had nothing to lose and more worlds to gain. The rebel angels include through doubt, thinking, thinking that the world, the universe, the whole cosmos exists independently of God and what is considered by them as his creation is just a lie to justify its hegemony, its moral authority on the matter. The laws of God are liars orders, imposed cages moral truths of nature and the free will of human beings. Knowledge allows the player, the Guardian Angel Arcade, the lowest degree of the celestial hierarchy, a member of the working class angel, to organize the largest undertaking ever attempted since the creation of the universe: the subversion of heaven. Through the reading of the texts of Latin literature, the treated natural, biblical texts, the scientific correspondence, knowledge of natural truths, Arcade is getting carried away by the angelic order new truths.
Around the library of the Paris Esparvieu rotates the centripetal force of the novel, not only for the bizarre happens to you, but the military potential that each library has the second France. Dusty treasure chest, a library is a mine that keeps track of itself in human thought in every infinite expression, a place capable of being property and anonymous and at the same hyperkinetic tool, as valuable as anyone else in the conquest of the possibilities of existence. Sariette, the sad Esparvieu of the librarian, is the emblem of the academic culture, greedy and bigoted, deeply tied to conservation rather than promoting the knowledge and the angel Arcade, however, is the desire for free access to the library as the ability to scale the millennia of human life and test the thoughts, moods, the research spent sensitivity and universal intelligence. For the library is a place of death and dust, mere accumulation of knowledge, the other is the discovery, acquisition of free life. The living library, den of lives lived and written books, is the source that led to dangerous hatred towards God el'eretico desire to subversion.
Satan and the revolt of men
For the Christian tradition, the birth of evil is sanctioned by the revolt of Lucifer, the most beautiful and seraphim around the throne of God's description of Lucifer's legions of angels opposing armies led by the faithful soldiers of God, the Archangels Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel, are dedicated to some of the most beautiful pages of the literature of the twentieth century. Anatole France is a veteran to tell the tale, an angel who participated in the primordial war with Lucifer and shared the thrill of rebellion and the fate of the expulsion. Nectaire tells Arcade conspirators of 1914 and the angels in heaven, what happened before the time it originated. Lucifer rebelled in the name of what God hates most, for the sake of curiosity, doubt, freedom, desire. Nectaire lined up along with many others from the angels of Lucifer, as he shared the accusations against the authoritarian God and greedy.
pages of the battle have a long breath and trigger an alchemy of imagination in the reader, able to hold him in my mind, nerves, epidermis, a great scenario that involves the whole country and all the Heavenly Heavenly Spirits , Thrones, Powers, Principalities, Virtues, all hierarchies and all the heavens. Impressive fights, assaults are huge vorticizzano between the angelic forces, rebels and loyal. France describes orchestra bloody war that involves the dawn of time and space through huge battles with swords, which pierced bodies resume their immortal fatua consistency. The rebel siege of the Mount of the Lord is deafening mass of angelic light of freedom burning proceeds to the throne of God, to subvert it and so gain a new source of things. Lucifer and his angels, despite the daring, divine lightning will be defeated and driven out of Paradise. Lucifer became Satan, or has-satan, adversary, accuser. The conspirators of 1914 burning desire to try the company loads of new knowledge and they want to control them is one, the rebel prince, Satan.
If creation of the asset is death, the pain, the moral obligation of religious laws, if the priestly caste, the power of noble creations are good, if good is the creation of the property, the battles, the bonfires, inquisitions, although he is the sacrifice, the pain, then it is in the opposite reason, in its place is the opposite of happiness and freedom. Evil does not become nothing but a good contrast to ruthless, false, misleading and murderess. In this inversion is no charm deep semantics of the revolt of the angels. What counts as good is only what is required, nothing but the order and customs formed. Anatole France, continuing to manipulate the infinite play of literature, solves the perennial problem of good and bad dealing with his rebellious angels to a place beyond the two tests.
The cosmic order of France is based on a universal polytheism. Ialdabaoth is just one of many in the infinite present demiurges be composed of cosmic chaos, of all deities the most arrogant, the most ignorant, the Callido winner. The God that Catholics consider the Triune is actually just Ialdabaoth. This is his name in the heavenly homeland. Anatole France mutual terminology from this Gnostic tradition, which defines Ialdabaoth a demiurge envious against the evil man who will not submit. Ialdabaoth ignores the laws of matter, mind, saying that the spirit is immaterial mind saying that the universe is finite and that he created and dominated mind when he says that the earth is still, lie mind as the Holy Scriptures, which in its word Spokesmen are. It is a demiurge Callido that stands between the nature of things and the order which imposes or would impose on things. The monotheistic religion is in this sense that oppressive prison set on the world of freedom. Ialdabaoth is the opposite of Satan. The Satan of France is very different from the Mephistopheles of Goethe's Faust, deceptive and infinitely powerful, or men are made by Satan as many of Adrian Leverkühn Doktor Faustus Thomas Mann, ready to ally themselves with the power of evil to achieve absolute perfection. It is rather a rebel who has a sense of limits, a hero who has the Epicurean aware that every greatness of mind is provided by an awareness of the limitations of matter, and it is this shadow line that creates the need to know.
The colors of the insurgency, the face of Lucifer, were looted from the picture by Delacroix in France in the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, which devoted many pages of the novel. Delacroix painted a shocking depiction of angels whose faces, rather than the rutile bliss linger in scandalous grins meditating revolt. Just added this scandal has moved into the heavenly serenity of the novel insight into the mind of Anatole France.
The propulsion of this provocation France delacroixiana the triggers in the construction of an anthropology demonic. Through the memories of veteran Nectaire building a new history of human civilization by telling the alliance between demons and men, like the first, sensitive to the condition of human misery, began to advise the knowledge and skills to make their lives better. Even in the Old Testament book of Enoch it is said that the damned angels secrets revealed to men because of which the world has fallen into disrepair. Nectaire, however, shows the history as an eternal battle between God and the alliance between demons and men. In this bizarre reinterpretation Manichean France takes the age old as the moment of maximum influence of demons over men. Dionysus is Satan. Dionysus, the archetype of indestructible life, the man tries to escape from the minority when God kicked him. The pagan mythology, polytheism, greek and latin, the cult of the vine and pleasure, love and art, becoming, not without a touch of rhetoric Arcadian, the reference to free humanity of the past where demons and humans lived happy. Everything changed with the advent Catholicism, the ideology of sacrifice Ialdabaoth spreads through his son again to subdue the man. Faced with such a religious wonder, which relegates the life of pain and penance, the demons will have enormous difficulty still be able to advise people. The new rebel angels have a wisdom, however, unknown to the world of men. Demons will emerge from the sleep of reason, ie the renunciation of power, rejection of authority as a result of any error, impossible to move towards the shoreline of freedom. The awareness of the power to find the source of all aberration of reason and feeling, making the Inferno, the earth itself, a place Best of the divine throne.
Demons by Anatole France, with this novel, becomes a literary legend of the gods on Olympus crisis capable of revealing what is behind the false and inhuman order of good. These literary demons show roads that lead to life caught in the vortex of knowledge, kidnapped in the time of passion, anarchy in the order, brought up in doubt and music, love for this area and the natural sciences, the beyond determining moral, legal, religious. Transcendent beauty that all authority is now only of demons and rebels may still be hidden blaze in the hearts of the people of our time.
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