Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine

Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine

by Jules Verne

Kin-Fo, un riche jeune Chinois, est indifférent à tout et ne connaît pas le bonheur. Un jour, il se retrouve ruiné et décide de se donner la mort. Mais au moment de passer à l'acte, il se rend compte qu'il ne ressent aucune émotion. Il demande alors à son maître et ami, le philosophe Wang, de le tuer dans un délai imparti, ce qui, il l'espère, le fera redouter la mort et éprouver enfin quelques émotions. Wang accepte, puis disparaît. Kin-Fo se lance alors dans un voyage à travers la Chine, à la recherche d'expériences qui lui permettront de ressentir quelque chose. Il rencontre en chemin divers personnages hauts en couleur, qui lui font découvrir différentes facettes de la vie.

Author

Jules Verne image

Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in an...

More on Jules Verne

Listen/Download Audiobook

Read by:
00:00
Playback Speed 1.0
00:00
  • Select Speed

Related books

Fountain Cover image

Fountain by James Russell Lowell

The Fountain is a poem by James Russell Lowell that explores the themes of nature, beauty, and the flow of time. The poem is written in a meditative a...

The Dawn of a Tomorrow Cover image

The Dawn of a Tomorrow by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city. He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day to purch...

Summer's Afternoon Cover image

Summer's Afternoon by Benjamin King

As the summer days wind down, LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of A Summer’s Afternoon by Benjamin King. This was the weekly poet...

Pointed Roofs Cover image

Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson

Pointed Roofs is a novel by Dorothy Richardson that follows the experiences of Miriam Henderson, a young Englishwoman who moves to Germany to teach at...

Song in Spring Cover image

Song in Spring by Thomas S. Jones, Jr.

A Song in Spring is a collection of poems that explore themes of love, loss, and the passage of time. Jones's lyrical style and vivid imagery capture...

Everlasting Flowers Cover image

Everlasting Flowers by D. H. Lawrence

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of Everlasting Flowers by D. H. Lawrence.

Geisterseher Cover image

Geisterseher by Friedrich Schiller

Schiller (1759 - 1805), einer der Weimarer Klassiker, bekannt als Dichter und Dramatiker. Der Geisterseher (3. verbesserte Auflage 1798), sein einzige...

Misérables - tome 1 Cover image

Misérables - tome 1 by Victor Hugo

C'est un roman historique, social et philosophique dans lequel on retrouve les idéaux du romantisme et ceux de Victor Hugo concernant la nature humain...

Reviews for Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine

No reviews posted or approved, yet...