by Victor Segalen · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070278961
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«René Leys» is the novel by Victor Segalen, published by Gallimard in paperback (252 pages, in French).
A Westerner in imperial Peking takes the young Belgian René Leys as his Chinese tutor, who claims to know the secrets of the Forbidden City: clandestine loves, family disputes and conspiracies against the empire. Fascinated, the narrator does not know whether he is a confidant or an impostor; from that ambiguity is born a tale about truth and fiction.
The work was originally published in 1919; this 1978 edition belongs to the L'Imaginaire collection and includes the 'version définitive' of the novel.
For readers of twentieth-century French literature, mystery stories and tales set in imperial China.
