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Original title
  
Le Divin enfant

Language
  
French

Published in English
  
1994

Originally published
  
1992

Page count
  
243

Publisher
  
Éditions du Seuil

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Country
  
France

Publication date
  
1992

Pages
  
243

Author
  
Pascal Bruckner

ISBN
  
9782020132152

Translator
  
Joachim Neugroschel

Pascal Bruckner books
  
The Temptation of Innoce, The Paradox of Love, The Tears of the White Man, Perpetual Euphoria: On the D, Has Marriage for Love F

The Divine Child (French: Le Divin enfant) is a 1992 novel by the French writer Pascal Bruckner. It tells the story of twins who are educated while still in their mother's uterus and one of them ends up refusing to be born; he struggles with his mother and with God and eventually becomes a celebrity while still unborn. The book was published in English in 1994, translated by Joachim Neugroschel.

Reception

Stewart M. Lindh wrote in Los Angeles Times: "What Pascal Bruckner, one of France's finest contemporary novelists, does in The Divine Child is to take us on a Candide-like journey into the world of neonatology". Lindh called the novel "no mere Gaelic version of Look Who's Talking, but a fierce satire of science gone wild". Kirkus Reviews described the novel as "A would-be Rabelaisian novel from French writer Bruckner (Evil Angels, 1987), who has an interesting idea -- defy death by refusing to be born -- but smothers it with gratuitously explicit sex, grotesque physical details, and old-hat intellectualism. ... One of those too-clever novels where the writer is more intent on strutting his stuff than telling a convincing tale."

References

The Divine Child Wikipedia


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