There are historical eras that can become a complete bibliography of an author, as is practically the case with Christian Jacq and ancient Egypt. Because many are those who take those inexhaustible times of an Empire that lasted millennia as a point of reference for their plots, thus highlighting the boat soon to Jose Luis Sampedro, Nacho Ares Or until Terenci moix. But the case of this French writer deserves a separate case as far as the deepening of the vast legacy of this culture is concerned.
In a way, classical is also cyclical. And let's say that Egyptology extended to literature or cinema also submits to that recurring cadence. Thanks to Christina Jacq, the literary wardrobe that to a greater extent reflects the transcendence of this civilization is safeguarded with incalculable value from the informative, the anthropological and even the intrahistorical when good Jacq takes care of surprising us with plots that open us to the reality of what the day-to-day life of that lost world was like from the fiction of its approaches.
Approaching this type of authors denotes a desire to know. The point is that Christian Jacq also knows how to make us enjoy his part as a novelist. The result is an exciting journey into that magic-laden past. Only the road is long and more than 50 novels await you ...
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Christian Jacq
The forbidden book
Keep the people subdued. Maintaining blind beliefs that govern between fear and custom was not easy even at the dawn of our civilization. Because alternative thinking is born from the notion of the magical, from the human imagination capable of overcoming, in individuals with great will, the dark dictates, meaningless and paradoxical, regarding the attitude of the mimes that dictate them.
In those days the option of these strange types was to confront power from the notion of even more fear, of merciless power that not even the crumbs of Pharaoh distribute among the people. Christain Jacq's most fanciful novel. And yet, a plot that continues to offer a completely realistic glimpse of what happened in that distant world of ours. Sejet, the attractive companion of Setna, the scribe and magician, son of Ramses II, in his adventure after the mysterious disappearance of the sealed vase of Osiris, has disappeared.
The young scribe will follow his trail throughout Egypt, while trying to discover the mysterious Book of Thoth, the forbidden book and the only hope to stop the evil plans of the great Black magician to end the empire of Pharaoh Ramses II. Setna, Christian Jacq's new hero, immerses us in a frenetic thriller in which betrayal, conspiracy and suspense are the absolute protagonists.
The cursed grave
The idea of ​​mummies, of bodies kept to the maximum to try to achieve the miracle of the parallel reign of souls from the incorruptibility of the body, served to harbor myths, legends and ancestral fears.
This book draws on that idea that hovers over the notion of a wisdom capable of crossing the threshold between life and death. If the canopic jars were in charge of collecting the viscera of the most glorious deceased, the Osiris vessel would be in charge of protecting the soul, a soul capable of going from here to there on that same threshold where it escapes from the end to enter the imperishable.
The Vessel of Osiris, the greatest treasure of Ancient Egypt, which holds the secret of life and death, has disappeared. Setna, the youngest son of Ramses, a magician capable of fighting against the forces of Evil, will be in charge of recovering it.
In what will be the most important mission of his life, he must put all his efforts to preserve the Kingdom of Light and prevent the Kingdom of Darkness from taking over the reins of power. Who is hiding behind the robbery? Who wants to end the life of the pharaoh and the entire Egyptian Empire?
Queen liberty
As I read on occasion, decadence also has its charm. And those lavish endless days of the Egypt of the pharaohs, the budding science and the gods, ended up fulfilling the human sentence of the finite.
In this volume that summarizes for the first time the novels "The Empire of Darkness", "The War of the Crowns" and "The Shining Sword", we enjoy the life and work of a not very famous queen, Ahotep, who nevertheless It was essential for the continuity of the empire under increasingly marked threats and tensions.
First woman warrior and willing to do anything for the dreamed ambition of perpetuating the domains of the old world, still waiting to be discovered in its most complete aspect but still, or precisely because of it, convinced from her greatness of her proximity to gods, myths, transcendence and legends.
From this queen, Christian Jacq shows us a fabulous Egypt on the brink of disappearance, which will be reborn from its ashes driven by the courage and passion of a girl. Without Queen Ahotep, the Valley of the Kings would never have existed, Egypt would not have known the period of splendor that was the New Kingdom or the most glorious of its pharaohs, including Ramses the Great.
