Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters.

CREATION

Originaltitel: September 11th and after.Originaltitel: The meaning of Timothy McVeigh.Originaltitel: Shredding the Bill of Rights.Originaltitel: The new theocrats.

La Fin de la liberté: Vers un nouveau totalitarisme?

Palimpsest

The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian""is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshipping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian""captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.

Julien

Hollywood

Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war, philosophy, and adventure . . . "There isn't a page of CREATION that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight."-- John Leonard, The New York Times

Création

La ménagerie des hommes illustres

L'auteur relate les 29 premières années de sa vie en convoquant ses souvenirs et les figures de sa jeunesse sans souci de chronologie. Ce portrait d'un écrivain à succès, petit-fils de sénateur, ami des Kennedy, d'Anaïs Nin et de Tennessee Williams, constitue une réflexion sur l'Amérique et ses moeurs mais aussi sur l'homosexualité.

CREATION

Résumé

Plus de livres de Gore Vidal

Critiques

Ce livre n'a pas encore de critiques