The Revolt of the Angels

[2] The plot emphasises themes of protagonists fighting a ruling hierarchy, and attempting to escape it, as well as "hiddenness, delusion, revolution, and epiphany ... a literary exploration of existential choices in an apocalyptic context".

France's political leanings—he was a socialist—heavily influenced Revolt, leading to the theme that successful revolutions always create greater tyrannies than those they overthrow.

[7] Joe Loewenberg has described the novel as an "imaginative narrative ... the ripest expression of Anatole France's urbane genius, a masterpiece of criticism at once ironic and eirenic".

[8] Essayist David Fuchs argues that much of Ernest Hemingway's early work suggests that he was probably aware of the book, even if he had not read it.

[9] F. Scott Fitzgerald references The Revolt of the Angels in his early short story "Dancing with a Ghost".