by Jean d'Ormesson · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070385782
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«Histoire du Juif errant» is the novel by Jean d'Ormesson, published by Folio in paperback (640 pages, in French).
In Venice, two lovers listen to an enigmatic narrator who claims to be condemned to immortality for having denied a glass of water to Jesus at Calvary. His tales cross eras: Stendhal, Christopher Columbus, Vikings, One Thousand and One Nights and the invention of zero appear in an erudite and festive rewriting of the myth of the Wandering Jew.
The novel was originally published in 1992 and this Folio edition is from 1993; Jean d'Ormesson was a member of the Académie française.
For readers of literary fiction who enjoy the rewriting of myths and erudite humour.
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