Rene Leys - Brossura

Segalen, Victor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1590170415 ISBN 13: 9781590170410

Casa editrice: New York Review of Books, 2003

Riassunto

In this entrancing story of spiritual adventure, a Westerner in Peking seeks the mystery at the heart of the Forbidden City. He takes as a tutor in Chinese the young Belgian René Leys, who claims to be in the know about strange goings-on in the Imperial Palace: love affairs, family quarrels, conspiracies that threaten the very existence of the empire. But whether truth-teller or trickster, the elusive and ever-charming René presents his increasingly dazzled disciple with a visionary glimpse of "an essential palace built upon the most magnificent foundations."

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"Strange and memorable...Segalen had seen the truth in his lies and has left them this beautiful endorsement." --The Japan Times

"An allegorical novel of Being [that] beneath the mask of irony Segalen poured into this book all the anguish of man in thrall to his limitations...this is the novel of the Impossibility of Knowing." --Henri Bouillier

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Book by Segalen Victor

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• Editore: New York Review of Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1590170415
• ISBN 13: 9781590170410
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 210