Title : History of the Wandering Jew - Jean d'Ormesson - book

Summary :

In Venice, at the foot of the Sea Customs House, opposite the Doge's Palace and San Giorgio Maggiore with its high bell tower, two young people who love each other go to listen, in the evening, to a surprising character who goes by many names. His stories carry them away, through space and time, in a whirlwind of adventures where Stendhal and Christopher Columbus, Chinese and Arabs, the procurator of Judea and Viking warriors, the Israeli raid on Entebbe and the invention of zero, the loves of Pauline Borghese and The Arabian Nights, all the passions of the world and also its miseries pass by at full speed, under unexpected lights, quite unfamiliar to schoolchildren. The man in the raincoat, who recounts, before disappearing as he appeared, these memories or fables that merge with life, claims to be condemned to immortality for having refused, on the road to Calvary, a glass of water to Jesus staggering under his cross. His story of eternity brings to life a myth as universal as Don Juan or Doctor Faust: the Wandering Jew. In the stories of the Sea Customs, he is unlike anything known: halfway between the Bible and comics, Hegel and Arsène Lupin, he embodies the history of men, necessary and useless, always cursed and yet irresistibly cheerful and happy.

• EAN : 9782724253702
  
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