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Release Year
2016
ISBN
9781590179659
Book Title
Glory of the Empire : a Novel, a History
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Item Length
7.8 in
Publication Year
2016
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Jean D'ormesson
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Fantasy / General, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary, Alternative History
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Width
5.2 in
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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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 Prince Basil 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 how to die," come alive in The Glory of the Empire , along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. 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 East to 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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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
159017965x
ISBN-13
9781590179659
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038391361

Product Key Features

Book Title
Glory of the Empire : a Novel, a History
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Fantasy / General, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary, Alternative History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jean D'ormesson
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

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Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"D'Ormesson provides witty fictional documentation, parodies opinions of historians and literati (there is a one-line parody of Walt Whitman), borrows outrageously and has caught brilliantly the 'Where is Nineveh now?' tone of sunset reflection. A tour de force."-- Kirkus Reviews   "No epic--sung, printed, or filmed--equals the sweeping turbulence of the 1,000-year history of the Empire...D'Ormesson's satire undermines important assumptions of the reigning ideology: that history is objective; narratives, neutral; that language transmits pre-existing truth...[The novel] is pure pleasure...it will absorb you, puzzle you, make you laugh...So powerful is the narrative that the passive reader risks overlooking much of the satire; the active reader, however, can find materials for a debunking operation the likes of which d'Ormesson himself perhaps never imagined."--William Beauchamp, The New York Times, "A tour de force, with an audience so special that this little jewel may just wink unseen."-- Kirkus Reviews   "No epic--sung, printed, or filmed--equals the sweeping turbulence of the 1,000-year history of the Empire...D'Ormesson's satire undermines important assumptions of the reigning ideology: that history is objective; narratives, neutral; that language transmits pre-existing truth...[The novel] is pure pleasure...it will absorb you, puzzle you, make you laugh...So powerful is the narrative that the passive reader risks overlooking much of the satire; the active reader, however, can find materials for a debunking operation the likes of which d'Ormesson himself perhaps never imagined."--William Beauchamp, The New York Times
Lccn
2015-037849
Dewey Decimal
842/.914
Lc Classification Number
Pq2629.R58g513 2013
Copyright Date
2016

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