Love, Violence, Prejudice, And Decay; Displaying Various and Contradictory Aspects of Modern Humankind

This article is an attempt to review Un dieu un animal written by the French author Jérôme Ferrari, translated into Farsi and published by Cheshmeh Publication in 1396. The main goals of this article are to achieve the dis tinguishing features of the book as well as examining its s trengths and weaknesses. The mos t prominent features of this book are: the confrontations of the pas t vs. present, present vs. future, violence vs. kindness, war vs. love, loneliness vs. community, s tability vs. ins tability, s taying vs. going, purposefulness vs. loss of purpose, love vs. hatred, tradition vs. modernity, humanity vs. animality, and ultimately life vs. death. An overview of the overall s tructure of the book and some conclusions based on the topics raised in this paper are also included.