Benoît Reiss

Aux origines du monde

At the Origins of the World

November 1, 2004
Conte
173 pages
205 × 260 mm
14 €
9782226140791
978-2-2261-4079-1
Illustrated by Alexios Tjoyas
																Benoît Reiss, Aux origines du monde
																Benoît Reiss, Aux origines du monde

What happened at the beginning, at the very beginning of time, for the Earth to exist, and with it the sky, the oceans, the animals and the Men? Was this world born from a dream, as the Aborigines sing on the red earth of Australia? Or from the tormented loves of Izanagi and Izanami, the divine lovers of the Lapp? Was it shaped in the polar night by the strange Raven-god spoken of by the Inuits, or by the terrible feathered serpent, the Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs? These twenty-six stories, as old as humanity, are full of furious or clumsy gods, fantastic creatures and incredible miracles. They speak of adventure, betrayal and revenge, but also of learning, knowledge, laughter and love.

The author

Benoît Reiss was born in 1976. He studied literature in Lyon and Paris. He worked in educational publishing before moving to Japan in 2007, where he taught French. Since 2017, he has been co-director of Cheyne Editions, with Elsa Pallot. As an author, he published the novel Le petit veilleur with Buchet Chastel in 2019, poetry with Cheyne, and stories including O’Yu, un éloge de l’eau chaude with Esperluète Editions in 2021.

November 1, 2004
Conte
173 pages
205 × 260 mm
14 €
9782226140791
978-2-2261-4079-1
Illustrated by Alexios Tjoyas