Aira, César: Fulgentius.
Fulgentius / César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
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Aira, César, 1949- (författare)
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Andrews, Chris, 1962- (översättare)
- ISBN 9780811231695
- Publicerad: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023
- Engelska 163 pages
Sammanfattning
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- "In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though of exactly one play) and in every city he pacifies, he stages a grand production of his farcical tragedy (written at the tender age of twelve) about a man who becomes a famous general only to be murdered "at the hands of shadowy foreigners." Curiously, what he had imagined as a child turns out to be the story of his life, almost. As the playwright-turned-general broods obsessively about his only work, the magnificent Lupine Legion-"a city in movement" of 6,000 men, an invincible corps of seasoned fighters wearing their signature wolfskin caps-kills, burns, pillages, and loots their way to victory. But what does victory mean?"--
Ämnesord
- Generals -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Dramatists -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Pannonia -- History -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Rome -- History -- Severans, 193-235 -- Fiction. (LCSH)
- Rome (Empire) (fast)
- Europe -- Pannonia. (fast)
- 193-235 (fast)
Genre
- Fiction. (fast)
- History. (fast)
- Novels. (fast)
- Historical fiction. (lcgft)
- Magic realist fiction. (lcgft)
- Novels. (lcgft)
Klassifikation
- PQ7798.1.I7 (LCC)
- 863/.64 (DDC)
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