Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century RomeChicago Review Press, 1 aug 2005 - 255 pagina's In this vivid, dynamic novel, Hella Haasse has once more brought the past to life. This time she has chosen to illuminate a crucial, yet relatively obscure period of history: it is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split between East and West, menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorius, an incompetent weakling, cowers in the marsh-bound city of Ravenna, where he has moved the government; he rarely "makes entry" into Rome. This is the brilliant canvas against which the characters in this drama interact. There is the Prefect Hadrian, a powerful official and fanatical Christian convert; there is Marcus Anicius, the pagan aristocrat who is clinging to a dying past, and there is the Jew Eliezar be Elijah, hemmed in by his own traditions and burdened by his dark vision of the future. There is the intrigue and uncertainty of life at Honorius's court, and there are the streets and tenements of Rome, pulsating with life and with corruption. |
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... able to deny in the long run.” “Since you are determined to find me guilty, why don't you just tell me right now what it is you wish to hear?” “Did you summon this man Niliacus — whose name, origin and circumstances are so strikingly ...
... able to deny in the long run.” “Since you are determined to find me guilty, why don't you just tell me right now what it is you wish to hear?” “Did you summon this man Niliacus — whose name, origin and circumstances are so strikingly ...
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... able to find the truth. You have always closed your eyes and ears to the new; you have always been arrogantly opposed to the spirit of our times. You are literally outside our time, Marcus Anicius Rufus — that's proven by your desire to ...
... able to find the truth. You have always closed your eyes and ears to the new; you have always been arrogantly opposed to the spirit of our times. You are literally outside our time, Marcus Anicius Rufus — that's proven by your desire to ...
Pagina 34
... able to maintain this stoical attitude under all circumstances ... ?" “I've said what I had to say. Nothing in the world could make me say anything else. And I know my friends — it's the same for them.” “This man, this Niliacus ...
... able to maintain this stoical attitude under all circumstances ... ?" “I've said what I had to say. Nothing in the world could make me say anything else. And I know my friends — it's the same for them.” “This man, this Niliacus ...
Pagina 47
... able to control the trembling of his hands during that interrogation, that game of question-and-answer... A game indeed—that was more than ever a comedy of justice performed in an orderly way to give an appearance of objectivity to what ...
... able to control the trembling of his hands during that interrogation, that game of question-and-answer... A game indeed—that was more than ever a comedy of justice performed in an orderly way to give an appearance of objectivity to what ...
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... able to put in charge of the estate, which holds no interest for his legitimate heir, a young administrator, a child of the country who values the land...To glide through the reeds in the dahabyah in the cool of the evening under a ...
... able to put in charge of the estate, which holds no interest for his legitimate heir, a young administrator, a child of the country who values the land...To glide through the reeds in the dahabyah in the cool of the evening under a ...
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Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome Hella S. Haasse,Anita Miller,Nini Blinstrub Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
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