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  • Ferrari down: St Augustine wins by Hippo!  

    The Sermon on the fall of Rome - Prix Goncourt 2012 (Paperback)
    It is always sad to browse a book where we would have liked the taste and experience the immersion bimbelotier, lurking behind the craftsman jeweler. Yet, draw the parallel between the fall of the Roman world as narrated by St. Augustine Bishop of Hi
  • Poor Bishop of Hippo  

    The Sermon on the fall of Rome - Prix Goncourt 2012 (Paperback)
    What the French Academy has awarded its Prize 2012 at the Case Harriquebert had appalled me. Quo non descendamus, I thought, because I happen to think in Latin as the late Pope Leo XIII ... Is that I had not yet held in my hands the Prix Goncourt tha
  • A real Goncourt, maybe ....  

    The Sermon on the fall of Rome - Prix Goncourt 2012 (Paperback)
    From a strictly literary level, we are dealing with a book remarquable.Le style is fluid, the French used good qualité.L'action is located in a mainly bistro and it's rather good trouvaille.Cependant, the link between what is happening in this bistro
  • One of the pleasant surprises of the Back!  

    The Sermon on the fall of Rome - Prix Goncourt 2012 (Paperback)
    It was necessary to the pellet Jerome Ferrari for resonating the little banal human history Libero and Matthew, with great history, that of St. Augustine trying to comfort his contemporaries about the fragility of empires after the fall of Rome. I at
  • "What man does, man destroys"  

    The Sermon on the fall of Rome - Prix Goncourt 2012 (Paperback)
    The novel Jérôme Ferrari, as it is almost a new short (200 pages size), is distinguished first by a beautiful writing, rich vocabulary and chiseled phrases and subtle historical and philosophical references, surprisingly, does not clash with a story
  • Mannerism  

    The Sermon on the fall of Rome - Prix Goncourt 2012 (Paperback)
    A book written by a guy who wrote a book while looking to write a book that will be the prize for best book written by guys who write books ... a book under a bit pretentious cover, in qu'encensent his back his publishers in a hilarious "perspective&
  • No one is a prophet in his time ...  

    The Sermon on the fall of Rome - Prix Goncourt 2012 (Paperback)
    Strange destiny than this novel, awarded the Goncourt in 2012, often praised by critics for its chiseled and incisive writing, but just as often accused of the most various ailments. No, Jerome Ferari didnt wanted to write a psychological novel probi
  • Major Disappointment 1  

    The Sermon on the fall of Rome - Prix Goncourt 2012 (Paperback)
    A philosopher, author confirmed the original and brilliant style, which invites us to discover our company in counterpoint to the meditations of St. Augustine! That's what I thought was the promise of an interesting read, and even a real discovery. N