# The Golden Age

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- Authors: [Michal Ajvaz](https://www.bookquiver.com/michal-ajvaz)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2010-04-20

## Description

The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be " The Book," a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in " The Book," adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even ap- pending " footnotes" in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text--but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read " in order," and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator's orderly treatise.

## Editions

### The Golden Age

- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- ISBN: 978-15-6478-578-7
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2010-04-20
- Language: en_US