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вЂњFor the first time, he began to see himself as he really was, naked and defenseless at the center of a universal debacle, buffeted this way and that by events, threatened on every side by an all-pervasive decay, sinking slowly into the quicksands of failed resolutions, and finally disappearing into the ultimate morass against which no honor could prevail.вЂќвЂ• Simon Leys, The Death of Napoleon Such lyrical, precise language, a cross between extended prose poem and novelistic meditation on the nature of identity, glory and history, both whimsically light and philosophically deep. Such graceful fiction from scholar/essayist/sinologist/quirky renaissance man Simon Leys (1935-2014). What a pleasure to read a real writer. The Death of Napoleon is utterly satisfying sentence by sentence and scene by scene, but it is also compulsively readable. These are the words of renowned literary critic Gabriel Josipovici, words with which I wholeheartedly agree. And to underscore my agreement, IвЂ™ll serve up a few slices of Leys poetic, that is, three quotes from scenes in Chapter One that chronicle NapoleonвЂ™s voyage on board a ship carrying the world-famous emperor from St. Helena back to his beloved France. And, yes, of course, this is imaginative alternate history.A snippet of the authorвЂ™s description of the shipвЂ™s cook: вЂњHe was tall, but a good half century spend over stoves in low-ceilinged galleys had broken him up into several angular segments, like a half-folded pocket rule. Without really being fat, his body swelled out arbitrarily in places, giving him the shape of a semi-deflated balloon. His face was split by a huge gaping mouth; in this grotto, as black and dirty as the maw of his stove, there emerged one or two teeth, like slimy rocks protruding at low tide. The ruined state of his teeth made his speech, already bizarre, all the harder to understand, endowing his rare utterances with a kind of oracular force вЂ“ as befits a black cook on a sailing ship who, to be true to type, must naturally have a smattering of occult sciences.вЂќ Wow! I mean, Super-Wow! -- exquisite visual images; expressive vivid metaphors.вЂњEvery evening, crushed by the fatigue of the dayвЂ™s work, Napoleon would escape for a moment from the stuffy atmosphere of the forecastle and lean against the bulwark in the bows to watch the first stars come out. The softness of the tropical azure giving way slowly to the velvet of night, and the glittering of the lonely stars which seem so close to us when they begin to shine in the dusk, left him perfectly cold.вЂќ If you have never had an opportunity to stand on the deck of a ship at sea and watch tropical azure give way slowly to the velvet of night, here is your opportunity to not only experience via your imagination but to join Napoleon in doing so.Napoleon assumes the identity of a cabin boy by the name of EugГЁne in order to escape from St. Helena. At one point we read of NapoleonвЂ™s self-reflection: вЂњDuring this time in limbo, and until the day when NapoleonвЂ™s sun would rise again, he had to survive by relying upon wretched EugГЁnes purely physical existence. Only the slenderest thread was leading him back toward the hypothetical dawn of his future. So far, at every stage of his journey, a new, unknown messenger had emerged from the shadows to show him the route to follow.вЂќ Again, on one level Simon LeysвЂ™ slim novel is a meditation on the nature of time and identity. And what an identity! After all, he is Napoleon.Thank you, New York Review Books (NYRB) for reprinting this slim classic. And thanks to Patricia Clancy for joining Mr. Leys in translating from the French into English. 130 pages of large font вЂ“ this novella can be read in three hours. Treat yourself to a day of literary ecstasy. I have four times over and counting, but then again, when it comes to ecstasy I admit that I have never observed moderation.
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