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Glory Of The Empire

Glory Of The Empire

265 kr

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The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired "to learn to die," come alive in The Glory of the Empire, along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. Jean d'Ormesson also goes into the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world as a whole, from the East to the West, and whose repercussions are still felt today. But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges, and in the end The Glory of the Empire emerges as a great shimmering mirage, filling us with wonder even as it makes us wonder at the fugitive nature of power and the meaning of history itself.

Artikel.nr.

5bb1458e-1f32-44b8-ac53-4ef2f45b1c3f

Egenskaper

Slag

Fiktion

Språkversion

Engelska

Bokomslagstyp

Pocket

Antal sidor

432 sidor

Skrivet av

Jean D’Ormesson

Översättare

Barbara Bray

Utgivare

NYRB Classics

Släpp datum

03/05/2016

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

9781590179659

Minsta orderkvantitet

1 styck

Vikt & dimension

Höjd

203,2 mm

Glory Of The Empire

265 kr

265 kr

I lager

Fre, 3 jan - fre, 10 jan


Säker betalning

Öppet köp till och med 7/1-25


Säljs och levereras av

Adlibris