In this enigmatic novella, one hears of the life of a litterateur before, during and after the Great Revolution. The Reform of Peking Opera was awarded the Prix Décembre in 2013.
A deeply informed, yet playful and ironic look at how the internet has changed human experience, memory, and our sense of self, and that belongs on the shelf with the best writings of Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard. "One day, as I was daydreaming on the boulevard Beaumarchais, I had the idea-it came and went in a flash, almost in spite of myself-of doing a Google search to find out what I had been up to and where I had been the previous e...
