Histoire du juif errant

Synopsis of Histoire du juif errant

«Histoire du juif errant» is the novel by Jean d'Ormesson, published by France Loisirs in hardcover (595 pages, in French).

In Venice, two young lovers listen to a mysterious narrator who claims to be condemned to immortality for denying water to Jesus at Calvary. The tales of this character cross eras and civilizations: Stendhal, Columbus, Vikings, Chinese, Arabs, the invention of zero, the Entebbe raid and One Thousand and One Nights.

Novel published in 1991; candidate for the Grinzane Cavour Prize in the foreign fiction category (1993).

For those who enjoy novels that combine history, myth and reflection on the human condition.