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It is a world of tiers and layers - The Amerind level, the Garden of Eden level, the Talanac, the Atlantean. And it was a playground for the Lord Jadawin, with transgravitational gates to the other levels. Now the gates were being sabotaged to permit an invading force fo "Bellers."
It was a world of tiers and layers - the Amerind level, the Garden of Eden level, the Talanac, the Atlantean - a universe of green skies and fabled beasts. It was the playground-cosmos of the Lord Jadawin, with trans-gravitational gates to the other levels and other worlds. But now those gates were being sabotaged to permit the entry of an invading force of 'Bellers' - human bodies housing the transferred minds of rebel Lords - and their minions, who were seeking two things: total domination of every lord's private cosmos, now that they had achieved immortality, and the life of Kickaha the Trickster, who knew too much...
A “creatively captivating and intellectually challenging” existential mystery from the great Polish author—“sly, funny, and . . . lovingly translated” (The New York Times). Winner of the 1967 International Prize for Literature Milan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz “one of the great novelists of our century.” Now his most famous novel, Cosmos, is available in a critically acclaimed translation by the award-winning translator Danuta Borchardt. Cosmos is a metaphysical noir thriller narrated by Witold, a seedy, pathetic, and witty student, who is charming and appalling by turns. In need of a quiet place to study, Witold and his melancholy friend Fuks head to a boarding house in the mountains. Along the way, they discover a dead bird hanging from a string. Is this a strange but meaningless occurrence or is it the first clue to a sinister mystery? As the young men become embroiled in the Chekhovian travails of the family that runs the boarding house, Grombrowicz creates a gripping narrative where the reader questions who is sane and who is safe. “Probably the most important 20th-century novelist most Western readers have never heard of.” —Benjamin Paloff, Words Without Borders
Il n'est même pas un Seigneur, seulement un être humain qui a presque oublié la Terre, ce grand cauchemar gris. Mais il est Kickaha, le Rusé, il a mille tours dans son sac et il ne s'avoue jamais vaincu. Pourtant le voici en fuite ! Un danger souterrain, monstrueux, plane sur les cosmos de poche. Pendant dix mille ans, les voleurs d'âmes sont demeurés inertes. Et puis quelqu'un a découvert leur cachette. Le malheureux ! Un voleur d'âmes s'est aussitôt transféré dans son cerveau. Ensuite, il n'avait plus qu'à trouver d'autres corps pour héberger ses congénères. Ils ont abandonné sans regrets leurs cercueils de métal : les délices de la chair sont trop tentants. Maintenant, ils sont là, quelque part, dans l'univers à étages. Ils vont s'emparer des corps et les jeter après usage, les Seigneurs et les hommes. Mais Kickaha se révolte. Il est chez lui dans ce monde magnifique avec son ciel vert et ses animaux fabuleux. On va s'en apercevoir. Les Seigneurs sont presque des dieux. Ils ont créé des univers de poche où ils évoluent comme dans un parc d'attractions. Leur vie est un jeu, souvent cruel pour les hommes. Pourtant ils sont fragiles. En acceptant leur destin d'êtres humains, Robert Wolff et Kickaha, les personnages de Philip José Farmer, trouveront la force de les affronter.
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