Comme un chant d'espérance

Synopsis of Comme un chant d'espérance

«Comme un chant d'espérance» is the novel by Jean d'Ormesson published by Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson in paperback (160 pages, in French).

The novel starts from a walk through the origins of the universe and becomes an inquiry into the meaning of evil and suffering. Jean d'Ormesson reflects, with a tone both serene and jovial, on the possibility that the order of the cosmos is not the result of chance and on the existence of an enigmatic reality that surpasses us.

The work was published in June 2014 with the subtitle «roman», within French literature and literary fiction.

For readers interested in philosophical and existential reflection and in contemporary French literature.