Gods Will Have Blood : The God Are Athirst

from vguy

Not a strong story, it centres on Gamelin, an artist of Puritan tendency, favouring a neo-classical style that fits with the overturn of the aristocratically Baroque. The first half of the book labours somewhat as we meet various characters and are offered discussions on revolutionary aesthetics ...

from charlie68

Story of the descent into the darkness of The Terror. Nice easy short read, with a history lesson thrown in. Well worth the effort.

from richardderus

Rating: 3.625* of five The Book Report: The journey through the Terror of the French Revolution made by artist Évariste Gamelin, aspiring bourgeois to Jacobin true believer to his inevitable fall after the Coup de Thermidor. One man's life journey explores the entire *amazing* and enthralling cou...

from varielle

The Gods are A-thirst, aka The Gods Will have Blood, is a French Revolutionary drama about the horror that can follow blind commitment to ideology. In the initial scenes a young, zealous artist is criticizing the beautiful needlework of his would-be sweetheart for lacking sufficient classical rep...

from jorgearanda

A symbolic but historical morality tale about the all-too-common perversion of the revolutionary spirit.