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The glory of the empire : a novel, a history / Jean D'Ormesson ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray ; introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn.

Ormesson, Jean d', 1925-2017 (author.). Bray, Barbara, (translator.). Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- (writer of introduction.).

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  • ISBN: 9781590179659
  • ISBN: 159017965X
  • Physical Description: xviii, 374 pages, xxii : genealogical table ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2016]

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General Note:
Translation from the French of: La Gloire de l'Empire.
"Originally published in French as La Gloire de l'Empire. This translation first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."--Title page verso.
Indexes on separately numbered pages at back of book.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes on pages [357]-374.
Summary, etc.:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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