Island of Penguins. The Rebellion of Angels.

"The Island of Penguins." Once a playful saint mistakenly baptized the penguins living on a remote island. With nothing else to do, he had to turn them into humans so as not to desecrate the holy sacrament. Thus begins the witty novel "The Island of Penguins," in which the author's contemporaries saw a sharp parody of the history of France - from the Merovingians and the Middle Ages to the Dreyfus Affair, the "consumer society," mass culture, terrorism, and even World War I!..
There is unrest in the heavens. A group of conspiratorial angels is determined to overthrow God and replace Him with the more appealing Lucifer. Among the revolutionaries is Arcadiy, a guardian angel who has read subversive literature and has developed distinctly anarchistic beliefs from books. The fight against the "ruling regime" is supposed to be carried out with methods that are not at all "heavenly"...
Two brilliant satirical novels by Anatole France - very different yet equally ironic and phantasmagorical.