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Vathek

Vathek

Title: Vathek
Author: William Beckford
Release: 2017-09-07
Kind: ebook
Genre: Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature
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Postface de Stéphane MallarméVathek, neuvième calife des Abassides vit aux confins de l'Orient, à Samarah. Esthète et curieux, il entreprend la construction d'une tour pour y lire le ciel. Mais sa cruauté est aussi redoutée par ceux qui s'opposent à lui. Un jour, un marchand vient lui proposer deux sabres portant une inscription que nul ne peut déchiffrer. Un vieillard parvient finalement à les transcrire confirmant que ces sabres sont destinés au souverain le plus puissant. Vathek s'en trouve flatté... mais le lendemain, le calife tombe malade et les inscriptions se transforment mettant en garde ceux qui cherchent à connaître les secrets les plus impies. Un homme propose alors un remède à l’aide d’un pacte : s'il abjure sa foi, il aura accès au palais souterrain empli de trésors sous la coupe du terrifiant Eblis... William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) fut un écrivain, homme politique et critique d’art anglais. Héritant très jeune d’une fortune colossale, il voyage et publie plusieurs œuvres dont la plus connue reste Vathek (1786) qu’il écrivit directement en français en trois nuits à l'âge de vingt-et-un ans.

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