Atlantida by Pierre Benoit, Fiction, Literary

I hear a step outside. It is Ceghéir-ben-Cheikh, our Targa guide, the man who in three days is to lead us across the unknown plateaus of the mysterious Imoschaoch. The lamp casts a yellow light on the paper. Strange fate, which, I never knew exactly why, decided one day when I was a lad of sixteen that I should prepare myself for Saint Cyr, and gave me there André de Saint-Avit as classmate.

A great insect has flown in through the window. It is an African May bug, big, black, with spots of livid grey.

What has been capable of causing this metamorphosis in me? A story, a legend, perhaps, told, at any rate by one on whom rests the direst of suspicions.

Our departure being scheduled for the tenth of November.

Olivier Ferrières

Author: Pierre Benoit
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9781606643839

About the Author
Benoit, Pierre: - "Pierre Benoit (1886 - 1962) was a French novelist and member of the Académie française. Born in Albi (southern France), he was the son of a French soldier. Benoit spent his early years and military service in Northern Africa, before becoming a civil servant. His first novel, Koenigsmark, was published in 1918; L'Atlantide was published the next year and was awarded the Grand Prize of the Académie française. Benoit became a member of the Académie in 1931."