Brésil, des hommes sont venus. Copte Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity

The Egyptians adorned their tombs with magnificent paintings

It offers a full account of the physical construction of the miniatures

with no return

Becoming a monk then implied not only a spiritual choice

Brésil, des hommes sont venus. Copte Late AntiquityBe fruitful and multiply, says the Scripture. Otherwise: Get on with it! adds Cendrars with the inimitable familiarity he employs in the story of great epics. This one, the conquest and settlement of Brazil, had everything to seduce him: the desperate struggle of a humanity eager for rebirth, the promise of a Paradise to come and the acute certainty of a present Hell.