The War of the Poor

The War of the Poor
Mark Polizzotti, Eric Vuillard
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6 Jan 2022 UK
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9781529038552
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The fight for equality begins in the streets. The history of inequality is a long and terrible one. And it' s not over yet. Short, sharp and devastating, The War of the Poor tells the story of a brutal episode from history, not as well known as tales of other popular uprisings, but one that deserves to be told. Sixteenth-century Europe: the Protestant Reformation takes on the powerful and the privileged. Peasants, the poor living in towns, who are still being promised that equality will be granted to them in heaven, begin to ask themselves: and why not equality now, here on earth? There follows a violent struggle. Out of this chaos steps Thomas Muntzer: a complex and controversial figure, who sided with neither Martin Luther, nor the Roman Catholic Church. Muntzer addressed the poor directly, encouraging them to ask why a God who apparently loved the poor seemed to be on the side of the rich. Eric Vuillard tells the story of one man whose terrible and novelesque life casts light on the times in which he lived - a moment when Europe was in flux. As in his blistering look at the build-up to World War II, The Order of the Day, Vuillard here once again takes us behind the scenes at a moment when history was being written.
[A] compact, artful blend of history and fiction . . . in cinematic bursts of image and action . . . [Vuillard] never forces analogies with the present, but the uprisings he describes feel like part of a war destined to rage in any era beset by gross inequalities. * New Yorker * Vuillard is the master demystifier, who leaves nothing sleeping in the shadows. He is only civil when it comes to language, which he applies with a devastating irony and a grace that one rarely reads. -- Gregoire Lemenager * L' OBS * A short and incandescent text. * Le Monde *
Eric Vuillard is a writer and film-maker born in Lyon in 1968 who has written nine award-winning books, including Sorrow of the Earth and The Order of the Day, which won the 2017 Prix Goncourt, France' s most prestigious literary prize.
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ISBN-13: 9781529038552
Published: 6 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 7mm
Weight: 96g
Pages: 80

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