by Jérôme Ferrari · Actes Sud Editions · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782330022808
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«Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome» is the novel by Jérôme Ferrari, published by Actes Sud in paperback (208 pages, in French).
In a Corsican village, two young men turn the local bar into a «best of all possible worlds» inspired by Leibniz, after abandoning their philosophy studies. The bar becomes the scene of conflicts that awaken old wounds. The novel dialogues with Saint Augustine's sermon on the fall of Rome and the fragility of human dreams.
Winner of the 2012 Prix Goncourt. 2013 paperback edition, part of Actes Sud's Babel collection (no. 1191).
For readers of literary fiction seeking a contemporary French novel with a rural setting and philosophical undertones.
Jérôme Ferrari is a French writer and translator. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome.
