Modern Classics I Claudius (Penguin Modern Classics)
病弱で吃音のあるクラウディウスが、帝政ローマの宮廷闘争と暗殺の連鎖をくぐり抜け、やがて皇帝へと押し上げられていく過程を自伝のかたちでたどる歴史小説。古代ローマの権力劇を、当事者の視点から生々しく描き出す。
作品情報
弱く見えた男が、帝政ローマの中心で生き残り、記録者となる。
ロバート・グレーヴズはタキトゥスやスエトニウスなどの史料を踏まえ、クラウディウス自身の回想録という形式でローマ帝政初期を再構成する。宮廷の陰謀、家族の権力争い、偶然の生存が絡み合い、愚鈍とみなされた男が歴史の証言者へと変わっていく過程を描く。
レビュー要約
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古代ローマの権力闘争を、クラウディウスの語りの推進力で最後まで引っ張る点が評価されている。歴史資料の厚みと物語としての読みやすさが両立し、古典として読み継がれる理由が伝わるという声が多い。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Penguin Classic
- 発売日
- 2006-08-29
- ページ数
- 400ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780141188591
- ISBN-10
- 0141188596
- 価格
- 3023 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth. Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his villainous wife Livia to the sadistic Tiberius and the insane excesses of Caligula. Written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, this is the first part of Robert Graves's brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, and stands as one of the most celebrated, gripping historical novels ever written. If you enjoyed I, Claudius, you might like Graves's sequel Claudius the God, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'An imaginative and hugely readable account of the early decades of the Roman Empire ... racy, inventive, often comic' Daily Telegraph 'Still an acknowledged masterpiece and a model for historical fiction ... sympathetic and intensely involving: a great feat of imagination' Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.
レビュー
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buono
buono
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Väl värd att läsa
Underhållande och bra skriven fiktiv historia om en historisk person
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Gran libro
Lo compré usado en estado "Bueno", decía Amazon, y la verdad es que estaba en excelente estado. El libro en sí es muy bueno, muy interesante y para ser una novela clásica no es una lectura pesada. Eso sí, si lo compran en inglés, tengan en cuenta que se requiere tener un muy alto nivel del idioma, siendo bilingüe aún preciso buscar 2 palabras por cada página en el diccionario o el traductor
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Baskı kalitesi kötü
Yazıları çok kalın, sanki sahte kitap gibi ama değil. Hızlı üretimin bir eksisi. Okurken göz yoruyor. Her baskı böyle değildir bence, yine de dikkatli olun.
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Lo lei y ahora es un regalo.
Es un magnifico libro para quien le guste ha historia novelada.
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