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The Failure (Un uomo finito)

Our edition · 1913 · 349 pages

The Failure (Un uomo finito)

by Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini's fierce autobiography of his years as a Florentine atheist provocateur — the prodigy who set out to demolish every faith and ended, by his own reckoning, a “finished man.” Written before his later conversion, a contemporary called it “a vestibule to the Life of Christ”: the firsthand record of the unbelief he would renounce. (English translation, 1924.)

The changed life

A celebrated anticlerical intellectual who edited journals dedicated to attacking Christianity, then converted to Catholicism and wrote a best-selling Life of Christ — the provocateur turned apologist.

A note on the text. The Failure (Un uomo finito)is in the public domain. What you're buying is our edition — the careful typesetting and design. The original text is also available free here.