Petronius : Satyricon - Couverture souple

Petronius Arbiter; Petronius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0452006538 ISBN 13 : 9780452006539

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1983

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

His principal object in writing the work was to amuse but, in amusing, he also intended to pillory the aristocracy and his wit is as keen as the point of a rapier; but, when we bear in mind the fact that he was an ancient, we will find that his cynicism is not cruel, in him there is none of the malignity of Aristophanes; there is rather the attitude of the refined patrician who is always under the necessity of facing those things which he holds most in contempt, the supreme artist who suffers from the multitude of bill-boards, so to speak, who lashes the posters but holds in pitying contempt those who know so little of true art that they mistake those posters for the genuine article. Niebuhr's estimate of his character is so just and free from prejudice, and proceeds from a mind which, in itself, was so pure and wholesome, that I will quote it:

Présentation de l'éditeur

This manuscript is described as "Fragments from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Books of the Satire of Petronius Arbiter"; we may assume, therefore, that the whole Satire was immensely long, a life-work, like Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, and like that work, perhaps, fatal to its author.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0452006538
• ISBN 13: 9780452006539
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible