The Satyricon (Oxford World's Classics)
by Petronius
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Author: PetroniusTranslator: P. G. Walsh
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-08-19
ISBN: 0192839527
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: One of the Most Important Works of Roman Literature...The Truest Inisght into Nero's Time
Summary: 5 Stars
What can one say about this work other than that it has been for nearly two thousand years a most controversial piece of work. Yet clearly controversy alone does nothing to make a piece of work valuable, great, or even worth reading. This work however is all of the above. Although the best way to read the work is in the original Latin (use a study guide if needed, and you most likely will), the English still preserves the power, wit, and hilarity of the work. This is perhaps the first true novel ever written and it is hilarious. At times it reads like a vaudeville sketch at others like Dionysian fantasy and it is truly all these things. I cannot recommend the work any more, if it inspired James Joyce and countless other great writers it certainly must be worth something. So I urge you not to listen to the other reviewers and take this work for what it is, imperfect of course, yet in this imperfection so unimaginably beautiful.
Summary of The Satyricon (Oxford World's Classics)
The Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre. It recounts the sleazy progress of a pair of literate scholars as they wander through the cities of the southern Mediterranean in the age of Nero, encountering en route type-figures whom the author wishes to satirize. P.G. Walsh captures the spirit of the original in this new and lively translation. His introduction and detailed notes provide the reader with a comprehensive guide to the meanings and intentions of the story and the later history of its literary influence.Humor Books
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