[Gutenberg 27724] • The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt / The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5
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- Authors
- Gautier, Théophile
- Publisher
- Aegypan
- Tags
- egypt -- antiquities -- fiction , romance , classics , egypt -- description and travel
- ISBN
- 9781463897284
- Date
- 1858-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.33 MB
- Lang
- en
While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism.
"I have a presentiment that we shall find in the valley of Biban el Mol�k a tomb intact," said to a high-bred-looking young Englishman a much more humble personage who was wiping, with a big, blue-checked handkerchief, his bald head, on which stood drops of perspiration, just as if it had been made of porous clay and filled with water like a Theban water-jar.
"May Osiris hear you!" replied the English nobleman to the German scholar. "One may be allowed such an invocation in the presence of the ancient *Diospolis Magna*. But we have been so often deceived hitherto; treasure-seekers have always forestalled us."