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Le Prométhée mal enchaîné by André Gide is a satirical novella written in the late 19th century. It slyly transposes Prometheus into modern Paris to mock private morality, free will, debt, and public spectacle, following Prométhée, a loquacious waiter, the tormented Damoclès, the self-satisfied Coclès, and Zeus recast as a capricious banker. Through farce and allegory, it probes how conscience, chance, and social theater entangle and consume people.
The opening of the novella stages an absurd scene on a Paris boulevard: Zeus, a powerful banker, conducts a “gratuitous” experiment by gifting 500 francs to one man (Damoclès) while slapping another (Coclès), as a sharp-tongued waiter explains personality, “free acts,” and his matchmaking “tables of three.” Prométhée wanders in from the Caucasus, summons his shabby “eagle” to peck his liver before a café crowd, and is briefly jailed, where he tenderly fattens the bird. Over meals, Damoclès confesses that the unearned money tyrannizes him,
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