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Emperor (1978)

por Colin Thubron

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"The Emperor Constantine crosses the Alps at the head of a great army from the Rhineland in AD 312, and marches south to take Rome from the tyrant Maxentius As he lays siege to the city of Verona, Constantine waits for the arrival of his wife, Fausta his enemy's sister -whose cool detachment torments him. Emperor is a superbly imaginative reconstruction of the dramatic weeks leading up to Constantine's triumph in Rome. Written in the form of extracts from his own journal and letters from his empress, her frivolous female companion, his cynical secretary and a Christian bishop who is travelling with the army, the novel records a train of event, which will change the world Constantine is plagued by spiritual doubts, tortured by his wife's coldness, but he defies the omens to win a great victory at Verona and to lead his army South. On the road to Rome, the conqueror becomes the conquered as a blinding vision strike, him from his horse in an astonishing conversion to Christianity. mperor summons up the Roman world of two thousand years ago, the everyday life of soldiers on campaign and the intrigues at court. But it is also the many-faceted story of a man's loss of faith in God an… (más)
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Powerful! Epistolary novel giving us an startlingly original and imaginative view of the Emperor Constantine. We relive the two fall months in 312 AD from preparations before the Battle of Verona, journey South, until the eve of Constantine's battle with his brother-in-law, Maxentius, at the Milvian Bridge. The author has written a numbing interpretation of what Constantine saw in the sky, as reported from several different characters' viewpoints--Synesius, his private secretary; Geta, the head of secret police; Fausta, his wife; a bishop traveling with the army; and summing up given by Tetricus, Praetorian Prefect.

From a [fictional] collection of letters, private diary entries, memoranda, crisp police reports the author has fashioned a masterly work detailing Constantine's "dark night of the soul" and his feelings of abandonment by his god, the Invincible Sun. Battle scene at Verona was equal to best descriptions of fighting I've read elsewhere. All of the characters were fully-fleshed: the intense, emotional, saturnine Constantine; his enigmatic wife, Fausta; the various civilians and military officers. We witness Constantine's extreme reaction at the death of his good friend, one of the legates, and we are privy to Constantine's tempestuous marriage. Public events, such as Verona and the vision, are described by several different figures. Very well-written; it was hard to believe a sheaf of documents could put me right into the story--and into the heart of the protagonist. The striking cover was a detail from a mural of Constantine's vision in a church on Cyprus.

Most highly recommended. ( )
  janerawoof | May 4, 2016 |
A well written fictional reconstruction in the form of letters and journal entries covering Constantine's march on Rome in AD 312 and, at the end, his conversion to Christianity. Of particular note are some of the religious debate and the bizarre relationship between Constantine and his wife Fausta. ( )
  john257hopper | Aug 9, 2009 |
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"The Emperor Constantine crosses the Alps at the head of a great army from the Rhineland in AD 312, and marches south to take Rome from the tyrant Maxentius As he lays siege to the city of Verona, Constantine waits for the arrival of his wife, Fausta his enemy's sister -whose cool detachment torments him. Emperor is a superbly imaginative reconstruction of the dramatic weeks leading up to Constantine's triumph in Rome. Written in the form of extracts from his own journal and letters from his empress, her frivolous female companion, his cynical secretary and a Christian bishop who is travelling with the army, the novel records a train of event, which will change the world Constantine is plagued by spiritual doubts, tortured by his wife's coldness, but he defies the omens to win a great victory at Verona and to lead his army South. On the road to Rome, the conqueror becomes the conquered as a blinding vision strike, him from his horse in an astonishing conversion to Christianity. mperor summons up the Roman world of two thousand years ago, the everyday life of soldiers on campaign and the intrigues at court. But it is also the many-faceted story of a man's loss of faith in God an

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