Quo vadis

di Henryk Sienkiewicz

579, pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 1997 da Hippocrene Books.

Numero OCLC:: 36768327

(3 recensioni)

"Rome during the reign of Nero was a glorious place for the emperor and his court; there were grand feasts, tournaments for poets, and exciting games and circuses filling the days and nights. The pageantry and pretentious displays of excess were sufficient to cloy the senses of participants as well as to offend the sensitive." "Petronius, a generous and noble Roman, a man of the world much in favor at the court of Nero, is intrigued by a strange tale related by his nephew Marcus Vinitius of his encounter with a mysterious young woman called Ligia with whom Vinitius falls madly in love. Ligia, a captured King's daughter and a one-time hostage of Rome, is now a foster child of a noble Roman household. She is also a Christian." "The setting of the narrative was prepared with utmost care. Henryk Sienkiewicz visited the Roman settings many times and was thoroughly …

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lopusacek ha recensito Quo Vadis di Henryk Sienkiewicz

Obsáhlý křesťanský leták

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"Quo vadis?" je klasikou polské literatury a hlavním důvodem, proč její autor Henryk Sienkiewicz získal v roce 1905 Nobelovu cenu za literaturu. Její čtení s sebou tedy nese vysoká očekávání, která však u prozíravějšího čtenáře jen těžko naplňuje. Přestože má jít především o příběh dvou zamilovaných, kniha je tak silně politizována a ponořena do nejhlubší křesťanské propagandy, až tím hlavní příběh trpí. Především na konci děje je propagace křesťanství až nesnesitelná, tím kniha naprosto ztrácí vážnost a stává se pouze obsáhlým náboženským pamfletem. Tvrdí takové nesmysly, až najednou čtenář pochybuje o pravosti veškerých historických "faktů" v průběhu knihy, které celou dobu četl, a o životě v době, do které je linka zasazená. Vše se zdá být velkou fikcí ve prospěch popularizace křesťanství, což zanechá po přečtení silnou pachuť na jazyku.

Maia@bookwyrm.social ha recensito Quo Vadis di Henryk Sienkiewicz

Quo Vadis

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Quo Vadis is an epic both tragic and powerful (and long!). The events in the story are loosely based on the history of Rome under the bloody reign of Emperor Nero (around AD 64), but I feel the purpose of this book was not to document it as a history. Instead, Sienkiewicz helps us to really understand the significance of the rise of Christianity as well as the fall of the old Roman gods in changing the western world. The tact with which he writes makes ancient Rome come alive, both the absolute horror and gore, as well as the blissful, delirious beauty of it. In the first chapters I was not very impressed. I felt the characters were not realistic and lacked dimension. However, as I continued I felt I came to grasp the purpose and style of the piece... and was thus gripped. I began to see the characters as almost idealised "actors" in this epic: the Christian, the Roman, the convert, the lover, the apostle, the emperor, the aesthete, the redeemed irredeemable, and so on. They all played their role - in the most tragic and dramatic way may I add - to serve the purpose of the story: to shed light on the irresistible love of Christ. I should say that I am not a Christian. However, after reading this book I feel I understand parts of the religion much better. Despite having been written in 1895-6, the accessibility of the piece has allowed me to better understand some of the debates still going on today when it comes to Christian beliefs in the world. I feel if we are to solve any of the issues in the world, we must listen to all sides of the story with open minds. This book has been an act of listening for me... as well as some proper tragic entertainment! I was heartbroken several times! My only criticism would be of one part of the ending (which I will not disclose here). It was the ending I wanted, but not the one I felt it needed.

TamaraSasso ha recensito Quo vadis di Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Riassunto: Due tizi, un patrizio ed una cristiana, si innamorano. W i cristiani, abbasso nerone;

Argomenti

Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Fiction.
Rome -- History -- Nero, 54-68 -- Fiction.