Island of Penguins

«Island of Penguins». Once a lively saint mistakenly baptized the penguins living on a secluded island.

There was nothing to be done, he had to convert them into people, so as not to tarnish the holy sacrament.

This is how the witty novel «Island of Penguins» begins, in which the author's contemporaries saw a caustic parody of the history of France — from the Merovingians and the Middle Ages to the Dreyfus affair, «consumer society», mass culture, terrorism, and even World War I!..