The Dream of Scipio Tapa dura - 2002
de Iain M. Pears
"May well be the best historical mystery ever written," proclaimed The Sunday Boston Globe about Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost, while Booklist called its publication "a major literary event." Iain Pears's international bestseller was greeted with front-page reviews ("A crafty, utterly mesmerizing intellectual thriller"-The Washington Post Book World), named a New York Times Notable Book, and hailed as a Book to Remember by the New York Public Library. Now he returns with a greatly anticipated novel that is so brilliantly constructed, the author himself describes it as "a complexity."
The centuries are the fifth (the final days of the Roman Empire); the fourteenth (the years of the Black Death); and the twentieth (World War II). The setting for each is the same-Provence-and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, but what joins them thematically is an ancient text-"The Dream of Scipio"-a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? "Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless," warns one of Pears's characters.
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- Título The Dream of Scipio
- Autor Iain M. Pears
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 398
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Riverhead Books, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2002-06-03
- ISBN 9781573222020 / 157322202X
- Peso 1.6 libras (0.73 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.55 x 6.51 x 1.36 pulgadas (24.26 x 16.54 x 3.45 cm)
- Época de 18 a UP años
- Cursos 13 - UP
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2001058916
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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