by Victor Segalen · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420693125
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«René Leys» is the novel by Victor Segalen, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (155 pages, in Spanish).
René Leys is a posthumous novel that appeared in 1922 and is set in the Peking of the last years of imperial China. Between fascination and irony, the narrator follows the accounts of an enigmatic Westerner who claims to know the secrets of the Forbidden City, court conspiracies, and the last empress.
Translation by Esther Benítez. Volume 101 of the collection «Biblioteca fundamental de nuestro tiempo».
For readers interested in imperial China, Orientalism, and early twentieth-century European narrative.
Victor Segalen was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic.
