- Published: 15 May 2016
- ISBN: 9781590179659
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $35.00
The Glory of the Empire
A Novel, a History
- Published: 15 May 2016
- ISBN: 9781590179659
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $35.00
"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