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Tell Them of Battles, Kings, & Elephants - Couverture rigide

Enard, Mathias

 
9780811227049: Tell Them of Battles, Kings, & Elephants
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0811227049 ISBN 13 : 9780811227049
Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2018

Synopsis

In 1506, Michelangelo--a young but already renowned sculptor--is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci's design had been rejected: "You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal."

Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II--whose commission he leaves unfinished--and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, and becomes immersed in cloak-and-dagger palace intrigues as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork.

Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants--constructed from real historical fragments--is a story about why stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly unmatched pieces, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another.

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À propos des auteurs

Mathias Énard is the author of Compass (winner of the Prix Goncourt, the Leipzig Prize, and the Premio von Rezzori, and shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize), Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants, Zone, and Street of Thieves.



A Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, Mandell has translated works by a number of important French authors, including Proust, Flaubert, Genet, Maupassant, and Blanchot.

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Éditeur
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0811227049
ISBN 13 
9780811227049
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
144
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Personne responsable
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