The Glory of the Empire
By Jean D’Ormesson
Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn
Translated by Barbara Bray
By Jean D’Ormesson
Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn
Translated by Barbara Bray
By Jean D’Ormesson
Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn
Translated by Barbara Bray
By Jean D’Ormesson
Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn
Translated by Barbara Bray
Category: Literary Fiction | Fairy Tales
Category: Literary Fiction | Fairy Tales
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$17.95
May 03, 2016 | ISBN 9781590179659
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May 03, 2016 | ISBN 9781590179666
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Praise
“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
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