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Bezig met laden... Augustus (1972)door John Williams
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Het buitengewone leven van een bijzonder complexe man, Octavius, eerste keizer Augustus van het Romeinse rijk, wordt geschreven op basis van gefingeerde biografieën, berichten en brieven. In het begin komt het wat traag op gang juist door de gekozen epistolaire vorm. Maar het blijft prachtig geschreven en vooral de laatste passage waar Augustus zelf aan het woord komt, is een pareltje van de schrijverskunst van John Williams ( )
So in reading Augustus, which Williams himself said was the depiction of the development and workings of the mind of a seemingly honorable man who is forced to perform evil acts in order to achieve a greater good—including the exile of the people closest to him—as Augustus Caesar had to do with his own daughter and his lifelong friends, I’m a bit at sea. Is opgenomen inPrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
"Winner of the 1973 National Book Award. In Augustus, the third of his great novels, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a[n] 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 expeditions[;] 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"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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