Title : The Great Emperor and his automatons - Jean Lévi - Book
Summary :
Here is the novel of absolute order, as desired by Ts'in Che-houang ti, First August Emperor, over the entire Chinese Empire, in the 3rd century BC. After stopping History by establishing the reign of pure necessity and enclosing space within a great wall, the August Emperor wants to abolish time. He ends his reign surrounded by hydraulic automatons and believes he thus has control over beings. Already, he dreams of directing men as one directs machines. But he himself is perhaps only a puppet in the hands of his prime minister. He dies while traveling and, preserved in ice, people continue to serve him meals and take his orders as if he were alive... Playing with the multiple mirrors of Chinese civilization, cruel and refined, voluptuous and conquering, this novel reveals the astonishing figure of this First Emperor and thus paints the portrait of a China that is both ancestral and modern.
- EAN: 9782226021038
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