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232 pages, Paperback
First published May 26, 1965
‘I often dream that I’m on a barge, I’m sitting in a chaise-longue, I put a handkerchief over my face and I have a little siesta.’ ‘Siesta… handkerchief… barge… What sort of words are those? I cannot comprehend them.’ ‘They’re words I’ve invented to designate the things I see in my dreams…’ ‘We’ve come a long way from sapiential and christian oneirology. Your semantic science, my Lord stinks of heresy.’
The water had receded to its usual beds and receptacles and the sun was already high in the horizon when the Duke woke up the next morning. He went over to the battlements to consider, be it ever so little, the historical situation. A layer of mud still covered the earth, but he could already see, blossoming here and there, some little blue flowers.







"secondo un celebre apologo cinese, Chuang-tzé sogna d'essere una farfalla; ma chi dice che non sia la farfalla a sognare d'essere Chuang-tzé? E in questo romanzo, è il Duca d'Auge che sogna d'essere Cidrolin o è Cidrolin che sogna d'essere il Duca d'Auge? "

