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Augustus

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#383234
Titel	Augustus
Auteur	Williams, John
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Nyrb
Jaar van uitgave	2015
ISBN10	1590178211
ISBN13	9781590178218
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In Augustus, the third of his great novels, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical novel set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire, whose greatness was matched by his brutality. To tell the story, Williams also turned to a genre, the epistolary novel, that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher’s Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master. “[In Augustus,] John Williams re-creates the Roman Empire from the death of Julius Caesar to the last days of Augustus, the machinations of the court, the Senate, and the people, from the sickly boy to the sickly man who almost dies during expedi- tions to what would seem to be the ruthless ruler . . . . Read it in conjunction with Robert Graves’s more flamboyant I, Claudius and Claudius the God, Hermann Broch’s The Death of Virgil, and Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian.” —Harold Augenbraum, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation
Pagina's	305
Conditie	Goed — Name on half title.
Prijs	€ 6,00

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