Böcker av Jean Perrot

Discovering Lamb House in 1896, Henry James fell under the spell of the words of Biblical Wisdom written on the tower clock of Rye parochial church: For our time is a very shadow that passeth away. From the young bachelor's angry vow to live for himself and turn the key on his heart in Watch and Ward (1871) to the decisive The Turn of the Screw (1898) and to the final turning the tables on an awful agent of the Apollo Gallery in the nightmare of A Small Boy and Others (1913), this refined ambassador of American letters, sharing some of the idiosyncrasies of Sacher Masoch and Gustave Flaubert - Jean-Paul Sartre's Idiot of the family - waged a fantastic fight against neurosis for the mastery of his craft. This study explores the gems that spangle the carpet of his prose. The latter hints at a secret christology and shines with the desire to fight differently the modern Romains de la decadence depicted in Thomas Couture's famous painting. The myth of the Twins inspired by James's relationship with his brother William eventually led him to feel like the heir of all the ages. Burning some letters to protect his privacy, the expatriate writer (1843-1916) constructed his A uvre to share the sky of the literary world Pleiades, and found eternal rest under the vaults of Westminster Abbey.

The palace complex of the Persian King Darius I, the Great (522-486 BCE), provides unique evidence of the sophistication of Achaemenid architecture and construction. This palace, built 2500 years ago in western Iran, lay at the centre of the Persian Empire that stretched from the Nile and the Aegean to the Indus Valley. First rediscovered in 1851, the palace of Darius was partly excavated over the next century. But it was only field research between 1969 and 1979 by the noted French archaeologist Jean Perrot which revealed the site's full dimension and complexity. Its bull-headed capitals, enamel friezes of richly-clad archers holding spears, figures of noble lions and winged monsters, introduced a new iconography into the ancient Persian world. The discovery and excavation of the palace, which this book records, thus casts a new light on the beginnings of the Achaemenid period. Edited by the distinguished scholar of ancient Persia, John Curtis, the lavishly illustrated volume is a work of seminal importance for the understanding of ancient Persia, likely to be radically altered by Perrot's research and findings.