Laurent Binet. Civilizations. Translated by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. French writer Laurent Binet’s newest novel, Civilizations, is the rare attempt to write alternate history as it happens, meticulously, day by day. It takes formal licenses by imitating literary styles contemporaneous to the time period in which it is set—between 1492 and the …
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Published on January 04, 2022 15:01