{"product_id":"journey-to-the-orient-9780988202603","title":"Journey to the Orient","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than just an account of his travels in Cairo, Beirut, and Constantinople in 1843, G rard de Nerval's \u003cem\u003eJourney to the Orient\u003c\/em\u003e is a quest for the unknown. If his narrator seems credulous in his retelling of legends of the origins of the pyramids and the mysteries of the Druzes, it is with this purpose in mind. While the Orientalists of his day were confident of having, in the words of Edward Said, \"grasped, appropriated, reduced, and codified\" the Orient, Nerval's Orient remains elusive, impossible to grasp. Poignantly dramatized in the thematic centerpieces of the tales of the Queen of Sheba and the Caliph Hakim, what takes shape in this visionary travelogue, as the author's hopes are alternately disappointed and rapturously renewed, is the story of the artist's search for the ideal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerard De Nerval\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Antipodes Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780988202603\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antipodes Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40663649910899,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":32.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9323ebe4-673f-4b50-b2bb-4e15a4a1df6a.jpg?v=1673535294","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/journey-to-the-orient-9780988202603","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}