John Williams

Augustus (Bok)

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award 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 expeditions to what would seem to be the ruthless ruler. He uses an epistolary, polylogic format, and in the end all these voices, like a collage, meld together around the main character. Monologue becomes action, but action never becomes character. Instead, an image of brutality questions its own origins.

Författare:	John Williams
Titel:	Augustus
Typ:	Bok
Kategori:	Böcker/Skönlitteratur/Utländsk
Releasedatum:	2014-09-20
Registreringsdatum:	2014-10-02
Artikelnummer:	722642
Lagerstatus:	Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 14 vardagar
EAN:	9781590178218
ISBN:	1590178218
Språk:	Engelska
Bandtyp:	Pocket
Mått(BxHxD):	133x203x18 mm
Omfång:	336 sidor
Vikt:	360 gram
Titel:	Augustus
Förlag:	Random House US