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A carregar... I, Claudius: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama (2010)por Jonquil Panting, Robin Brooks
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Written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, this is the first part of Roberts Graves's account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, and stands as one of the most celebrated, gripping historical novels ever written. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I, Claudius turns out to be very good. It gets better with each chapter. A theme is schadenfreude, the German concept of taking pleasure in the suffering of others. This happens on multiple levels, the characters themselves who gleefully poison, plot and destroy their enemies and public at large. And for the reader, who then enjoys their comeuppance. Only Claudius is immune, because he is a "simpleton" humanitarian and democrat. Which saves him. But even that is not enough to protect him in the end. It is a dark portrait of Roman aristocratic amorality. ( )