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The Glory of the Empire
A Novel, a History
Taschenbuch von Jean D'Ormesson
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
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Jean d'Ormesson, translated from the French by Barbara Bray, introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781590179659
ISBN-10: 159017965X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: D'Ormesson, Jean
Übersetzung: Bray, Barbara
Hersteller: New York Review of Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 131 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Jean D'Ormesson
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2016
Gewicht: 0,456 kg
Artikel-ID: 104258594
Über den Autor
Jean d'Ormesson, translated from the French by Barbara Bray, introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781590179659
ISBN-10: 159017965X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: D'Ormesson, Jean
Übersetzung: Bray, Barbara
Hersteller: New York Review of Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 131 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Jean D'Ormesson
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2016
Gewicht: 0,456 kg
Artikel-ID: 104258594
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