[Gutenberg 27724] • The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt / The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5

[Gutenberg 27724] • The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt / The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5
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
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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."