Title : Alexandria - Daniel Rondeau - book
Summary :
Alexandria is first and foremost a memory. That of the lighthouse, the Pharos, which tells us of a world-city drawn on the sands of Africa by Alexander, before he entered Asia like a cyclone with his escort of scholars and magi. The lighthouse tells us of a flame that shone between heaven and earth, of men and their navigations, of war, politics, knowledge and literature, of the disappearance of all things, that is to say, of destiny. More than two thousand years after Alexander, two passing novelists, Durrell and Forster, and a Greek poet who lived above a brothel, Constantin Cavafy, restored to this drifting city its imaginary grandeur. Daniel Rondeau paints a portrait of this capital of memory and knowledge, the hinge of the world between East and West, but which is also this spiritual city where men have always asked themselves the question of knowing if there was something or someone between them and the Most High.
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EAN : 9782070407491
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