Glory of the Empire: A Novel, a History
Glory of the Empire: A Novel, a History The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Jean d'Ormesson also goes into the daily…
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Glory of the Empire: A Novel, a History
The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. 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. 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.
But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges,
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