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Fulgentius

Fulgentius

Aira, César
Andrews, Chris

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 0811231690
ISBN13: 9780811231695
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Mar 7 2023
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.07 Depth: 7.03
Language: English
By profession I am a soldier, a general in the glorious Roman army. As a playwright, I think of myself as a sublime amateur.

In Cesar Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general--Rome's most illustrious and experienced--is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia.He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though of exactly one play) and in every city he pacifies, he stages a grand production of his farcical tragedy (written at the tender age of twelve) about a man who becomes a famous general only to be murdered at the hands of shadowy foreigners. Curiously, what he had imagined as a child turns out to be the story of his life, almost. As the playwright-turned-general broods obsessively about his only work, the magnificent Lupine Legion--a city in movement of 6,000 men, an invincible corps of seasoned fighters wearing their signature wolfskin caps--kills, burns, pillages, and loots their way to victory. But what does victory mean?

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