Paradise Regained

Mastering both the French, the Italian, the Greek, the Latin, Italian and Hebrew, Milton is the archetype of the scholar writer.
Young, the latter wanted to become a priest, Literature decides otherwise; Knowing Gospels on his fingertips, he dictated to his daughters the 12 that make up the epic poems Paradise Lost. At the time, Milton became blind and one can only bow to the mastery of such a mind!
12 Poems, therefore, that tell the Fall of Lucifer and the "civil war" between Archangels in Paradise when they -C learn that God decided to throw his sights on his new creation: Man.

Rejects in Hell, the Devil began to assimilate that revenge and chase the Paradise our species. Follows a journey where the demon hesitates between Good and Evil, where the nature of the argument beautiful angel the temptation of revenge.

This fallen angel who rebelled, who doubts, crying but ultimately can not help finalize his downfall and that of humanity has never been so ... human.
It prefigures the doubt that besieges us all, regardless of religion, where is the question: If God exists why such suffering?

Beyond this metaphysical aspect, the language of Milton is sublime and magnified by translating Chateaubriand, who without the bombast of Tomb addition memoirs, found the passion and romance of Atala and Rene.

For, Paradise Lost is also a deeply moving love story, the first that humanity experienced:
Before being expelled from Eden, the archangel Raphael advises Adam consequences of submission to the Temptation. Adam Divine torn between fidelity and love for Eve choose to die for vonlontairement to follow his wife on Earth.

It is in this book you will find the famous "you better reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Unwittingly, Milton wrote in a manifesto full of 17 century independence from religious thought.