Penguin Island

9 hrs. 29 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Anatole France

Narrator Pavel Lomakin

Description

Anatole France is one of the brightest French writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, author of the novels “The Gods Are Thirsty,” “Thais,” and “The Revolt of the Angels,” and a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (1921).

What if, by the will of a scatterbrained saint, penguins became people? Here’s a dazzling satire on all of human history—from ancient kings to world wars, where, under France’s pen, penguins turn out to be astonishingly like us. Witty, audacious, and painfully recognizable—classic work that hits the mark!

“The Island of Penguins.” Once a playful saint, by mistake, baptized the penguins living on a remote island. What could be done? They had to be turned into people so as not to profane the sacred ritual. Thus begins the witty novel “The Island of Penguins,” in which the author’s contemporaries saw a biting parody of the history of France—from the Merovingians and the Middle Ages to the Dreyfus affair, the “consumer society,” mass culture, terrorism, and even the First World War!..