by Aldous Huxley · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432035500
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The Devils of Loudun is an interpretive essay on a famous case of alleged demonic possession that occurred in 1631 in the French city of Loudun. The nuns of a convent of Ursulines, led by the prioress, Sister Joan of the Angels, claim to be possessed by the Evil One and accuse Urbain Grandier, a priest known in Loudun for his ambition and his unexemplary life, as responsible. In the process, good faith is mixed with ignorance, superstition and human passions, and high politics, represented by Cardinal Richelieu, ends up deciding the fate of Grandier, who dies at the stake. After having inspired writers such as Dumas, Vigny and Michelet, the theme has recently passed to the opera (The Devils of Loudun, 1969, by Penderecki) and to the cinema (in the Polish film Mother Joan of the Angels, 1961, by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, and in the British The Devils, 1971, by Ken Russell).
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.
