by Victor Segalen · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420644363
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René Leys is a novel by the French writer Victor Segalen, published posthumously in 1922. The novel is set in Beijing during the final years of the Qing dynasty and tells the story of a young Frenchman who becomes involved in the life of the Chinese imperial court. Through his conversations with Maurice Roy, Segalen keeps us between veracity and doubt, between the fascination of the mysterious and the irony. The descriptions of Beijing at that time are prodigious. Victor Segalen was not looking for the exotic or the picturesque in China, but rather a wisdom that discovers an unknown self, an expression of poetry and feelings that the East helped him find.
Victor Segalen was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic.
