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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 Rene 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 Rene presents his increasingly dazzled disciple with a visionary glimpse of "an essential palace built upon the most magnificent foundations."
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"This book's appeal is such that we are held until the end, prisoners of a marvelous ambiguity."
" 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
"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
" 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
"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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- PublisherOverlook Pr
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0879513500
- ISBN 13 9780879513504
- BindingPaperback
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