Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Augustus de John Williams

Augustus

Autor John Williams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 aug 2014

La prima vedere, Augustus ar putea părea o simplă cronică istorică a ascensiunii unuia dintre cei mai influenți lideri ai lumii antice. Totuși, ceea ce descoperim între paginile sale este un experiment literar de o profunzime rară, o explorare a singurătății puterii care transcende biografia convențională. John Williams nu alege calea unei narațiuni liniare, ci reconstruiește lumea romană printr-un mozaic de perspective: scrisori, decrete imperiale și fragmente de jurnal care ne permit să observăm evoluția lui Octavius de la un tânăr fragil de optsprezece ani la arhitectul unui imperiu. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul reușește să redea vocea unor figuri precum Cicero, Brutus sau Marc Antoniu, transformând jocurile politice de la curte într-o experiență cinematică și intimă în același timp. Găsim în această carte aceeași precizie stilistică și atenție pentru viața interioară care au făcut din Stoner un succes răsunător, însă aici Williams mută focusul de la anonimatul unui profesor universitar la greutatea istorică a unui om care trebuie să sacrifice totul pentru stabilitatea Romei. Ca și Caesar's Legacy, romanul explorează transformările sângeroase ale lumii mediteraneene după moartea lui Caesar, dar dintr-o perspectivă mult mai personală și fragmentată, unde adevărul istoric se împletește cu introspecția poetică. Este o operă despre costul uman al ordinii, scrisă cu o eleganță care justifică pe deplin statutul său de clasic modern.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 10921 lei

Puncte Express: 164
Paperback (2) de la 5749 lei

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 17 iunie-01 iulie
Livrare express 02-06 iunie pentru 4629 lei

Livrare prin curier în România Termenul estimat este afișat lângă disponibilitate.
Transport gratuit de la 40000 lei Plată online sau ramburs, în funcție de opțiunile comenzii.
Retur gratuit în 14 zile Comandă securizată și suport în română.
 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781590178218
ISBN-10: 1590178211
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția New York Review Books

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care caută o ficțiune istorică riguroasă, dar care nu se mulțumesc cu o simplă înșiruire de bătălii. Augustus oferă o lecție magistrală de diplomație și psihologie politică, dezvăluind omul din spatele bustului de marmură. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care s-a născut Imperiul Roman, totul prin filtrul unei proze de o frumusețe rară, premiată cu National Book Award.

Despre autor

John Williams (1922–1994) a fost un scriitor și profesor universitar american, cunoscut pentru capacitatea sa extraordinară de a aborda genuri literare complet diferite cu aceeași măiestrie. Deși astăzi este celebru la nivel mondial pentru romanul său de campus Stoner, care a cunoscut o renaștere spectaculoasă în ultimele decenii, Williams a demonstrat o versatilitate rară. În Augustus, el combină erudiția sa despre English Renaissance Poetry cu o cercetare istorică minuțioasă, creând o operă care i-a adus prestigiosul National Book Award. Opera sa rămâne un punct de referință în literatura americană pentru stilul sobru și capacitatea de a reda complexitatea condiției umane.

Recenzii

""Augustus" is a masterpiece." -"Los Angeles Times"

"One is drawn deeply into a world whose complexity, luxury, political cynicism, public gullibility, and violence seem very much like our own." -"The New Yorker"

"Williams has immersed himself in ancient history, its figures, its conflicts, its complicated intrigues and its often primitive turmoil. In his vivid panorama, The Golden Age sparkles with an eloquence, at times, approaching the poetic." -"The Plain Dealer"

"Out of the events surrounding one of the pivotal moments in Western history . . . John Williams has fashioned an always engaging, psychologically convincing work of fiction." -"The New York Times"

""Augustus" is a vividly imagined re-creation of classical Rome, but its intuitive grasp of the experience of immense power makes it an unusual, and superior, novel." -"The Boston Globe"

"Novel or history, this is an excellent book. . . . a superior work of the imagination." -"Playboy"

"It would be easy to over-praise this novel; but there does not seem any adequate reason why this temptation should be resisted, especially as Mr. Williams in his turn resists the obvious one of allowing irony too prominent a part in the proceedings." -"The Economist"

"A pleasure to read. . . . A most polished performance." -"Boston Herald Traveler"

"Strong and striking. . . . Intelligent and intuitive, this excellent historical novel makes the world of Ancient Rome a place in which we feel instantly at home." -"Publishers Weekly"

"A novel of extraordinary range, yet of extraordinary minuteness, that manages never to sacrifice one quality for the other." -"The Financial Times"
"The finest historical novel ever written by an American." --"The Washington Post"
"[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 format, and in the end all these voices, like a collage, meld together around the main character . . . Read it in conjunction with Robert Graves's more flamboyant" I, Claudius" and Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian."" --Harold Augenbraum, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation
"A novel of extraordinary range, yet of extraordinary minuteness, that manages never to sacrifice one quality for the other." --"Financial Times"
"Williams has fashioned an always engaging, psychologically convincing work of fiction--a consistent and well-realized portrait." --Thomas Lask, "The New York Times"
"Readers of both "Stoner" and "Butcher's Crossing" will here encounter an altogether new version of the John Williams they've come to know: "Augustus" is an epistolary novel set in classical Rome. It's a rare genius who can reinvent himself in his final work and earn high praise for doing so." --"The Millions"
""Augustus" is gripping, brimming with life." --Dan Piepenbring, "The Paris Review Daily"
" "

Descriere

WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
By the Author of "Stoner"
In "Augustus," his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre 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.

Notă biografică

John Williams (1922-1994) was born and raised in northeast Texas. Despite a talent for writing and acting, Williams flunked out of a local junior college after his first year. He reluctantly joined the war effort, enlisting in the Army Air Corps, and managed to write a draft of his first novel while there. Once home, Williams found a small publisher for the novel and enrolled at the University of Denver, where he was eventually to receive both his B.A. and M.A., and where he was to return as an instructor in 1954.
He remained on the staff of the creative writing program at the University of Denver until his retirement in 1985. During these years, he was an active guest lecturer and writer, editing an anthology of English Renaissance poetry and publishing two volumes of his own poems, as well as three novels, "Butcher's Crossing," " Stoner," and the National Book Award-winning "Augustus" (all published as NYRB Classics).
Daniel Mendelsohn was born in 1960 and studied classics at the University of Virginia and at Princeton, where he received his doctorate. His essays and reviews appear regularly in "The New York Review of Books," "The""New Yorker," and "The New York Times Book Review." His books include "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million"; a memoir, "The Elusive Embrace"; and the collection "Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture," published by New York Review Books. He teaches at Bard College.