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Megalomania

Jean-Baptiste Malet

Release date : 06/10/2022

A book that combines reporting, investigative journalism, and storytelling, Megalomania reads like a novel, much like David Grann’s bestseller The Lost City of Z.

Megalomania tells the story of a group of utopians and pioneers of globalization during the Belle Époque who drew up plans for a World Capital. They met worldwide success in 1913, to the point that the city became an emblem of the international pacifist movement just months before the start... Megalomania tells the story of a group of utopians and pioneers of globalization during the Belle Époque who drew up plans for a World Capital. They met worldwide success in 1913, to the point that the city became an emblem of the international pacifist movement just months before the start of World War I. All around the world, the project was supported by the Nobel Peace Prize winners, monarchs, prominent political figures, intellectuals, philanthropists, and artists like Rodin and Frédéric Mistral in France and the architect Otto Wagner in Austria.

But this dream fell into oblivion. And its story has never been written. A book of non-fiction, Megalomania is structured by two lines of narrative that call and respond to each other over the course of the book. The first narrative is that of history proper and its cast of characters, meticulously reconstructed in every detail. The second is that of the researcher himself, who pulls the reader to more and more unlikely places all over the world.

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