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René Leys

By Victor Segalen
Preface by Ian Buruma
Translated by J. A. Underwood

By Victor Segalen
Preface by Ian Buruma
Translated by J. A. Underwood

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Jul 31, 2003 | ISBN 9781590170410

René Leys by Victor Segalen
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Jul 31, 2003 | ISBN 9781590170410

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About René Leys

In this entrancing story of spiritual adventure, a Westerner in Peking seeks the mystery at the heart of the Forbidden City. He takes as a tutor in Chinese the young Belgian René Leys, who claims to be in the know about strange goings-on in the Imperial Palace: love affairs, family quarrels, conspiracies that threaten the very existence of the empire. But whether truth-teller or trickster, the elusive and ever-charming René presents his increasingly dazzled disciple with a visionary glimpse of "an essential palace built upon the most magnificent foundations."

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Category: Historical Fiction

Paperback | $17.95
Published by NYRB Classics
Jul 31, 2003 | 240 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9781590170410

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Praise

"Strange and memorable…Segalen had seen the truth in his lies and has left them this beautiful endorsement." —The Japan Times

"An allegorical novel of Being [that] beneath the mask of irony Segalen poured into this book all the anguish of man in thrall to his limitations…this is the novel of the Impossibility of Knowing." –Henri Bouillier

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