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Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants

By: Mathias Énard
Narrated by: Thibault de Montalembert
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Mai 1506, Michel Ange débarque à Constantinople. A Rome, il a laissé inachevé le tombeau que lui a commandé Jules II, au risque de s'attirer la colère de ce pape particulièrement irascible. Mais comment résister à l'invitation du Sultan Bajazet, qui veut lui confier la conception d'un pont enjambant l'estuaire du Bosphore, la Corne d'Or ? Pont entre deux rives, mais aussi entre deux mondes, deux civilisations...

Une évocation fascinante et raffinée de ce moment où la Renaissance esquisse avec l'Orient byzantin un sublime rendez-vous, hélas manqué.

L'interprétation de Thibault de Montalembert épouse toutes les nuances de ce récit qui mêle fastes révolus et ambiguïtés politiques.
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Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2010, Grand Prix du livre audio La Plume de Paon : Prix du Public Littérature contemporaine 2012.

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"Un conte où se croisent la satire politique et l'irrévérence religieuse, où l'histoire et l'imagination flirtent avec finesse, poussées par une langue inventive comme il est rare d'en découvrir."
Maud Vergnol, L'Humanité Dimanche

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A beautiful and poetic novel

A really well written book ! Very poetic, we very quickly engaged with the story and the environment where it takes place. I listened to it in one day !

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