Le paravent de soie et d'or

The collection unfolds a series of lyric, exotically rendered episodes set in Annam, combining pastoral images, legendary histories, and courtly encounters. Early scenes place a young buffalo herdsman amid heat and insect hum, where passing wounded warriors trigger recollections and recognition of a prince believed dead; later sections move into the royal camp, ritual spaces, and symbolic emblems such as a dragon tattoo that reveals sovereignty. Stories interweave sensory description with reflections on memory, fate, and the boundary between dreaming and waking, alternating intimate domestic moments, martial return, and mythic genealogy while relying on ornate imagery and theatrical tableaux to evoke ceremonial life.