Cette tétralogie plonge dans la période turbulente de l'entre-deux-guerres, explorant des relations humaines complexes et des dilemmes moraux. Elle suit les parcours de personnages qui s'efforcent de trouver leur place dans un monde secoué par des bouleversements politiques et des drames personnels. La série offre un regard profond sur la nature humaine et les changements sociétaux, le tout enveloppé dans une narration captivante. C'est un récit de survie, d'amour et de perte durant l'une des époques les plus tumultueuses de l'histoire moderne.
Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, introduces one of Michael Moorcock's most magnificent creations - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century, he discovers the pleasures of sex and cocaine and glimpses a sophisticated world beyond his horizons before the storm of the October Revolution breaks.
Via a series of crises, self-hating Jew and cocaine addict Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat, makes his way from 1919 Bolshevik Russia to a Hollywood on the rise. Reissue.
The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage as he crashes towards an appointment with the worst nightmare of this century.
The fourth and final volume of the legendary Pyat Quartet. Hero-worshipping Mussolini, he enters the dictator's circle, enjoys a close friendship with Mussolini's wife and is sent by the Duce on a secret mission to Munich, becoming intimate with Ernst Roehm, the homosexual stormtrooper leader.