by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt · Ediciones Destino · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423340453
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«La secta de los egoístas» is the contemporary novel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, published by Ediciones Destino in hardback (200 pages, in Spanish).
At the National Library of Paris, a scholar discovers Gaspard Languenhaert, an 18th-century philosopher and founder of the «egoist philosophy»: the self creates the world and is its God. His traces scatter as if a conspiracy wanted to erase him. The investigation unfolds between 18th-century salons and present-day Paris and Amsterdam, reflecting on identity, existence, and reality.
First novel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, published as volume 1 of the Áncora & Delfín collection on 8 May 2008.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories with a philosophical background and a bibliographic enigma.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
