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Sto caricando le informazioni... Kings of Albion (2000)di Julian Rathbone
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Un civilizzato principe indiano visita l'Inghilterra medievale della guerra delle due rose alla ricerca del fratello scomparso, e delle mirabili tecniche militari che questi “barbari del nord” si dice possiedano. Raccontato abilmente da tre voci narranti con stili diversi, intreccia invenzioni e citazioni, e mescola con leggerezza e umorismo le vicende dei personaggi immaginari e di quelli storici. Un romanzo con una vena antiautoritaria e libertaria, che gioca con la storia. ( )
The plot is about an expedition sent out by the threatened Indian kingdom of Vijayanagara, to see if they can learn something from the far away English, who are rumoured even that far away to be the most warlike race on Earth. And the rumour turns out to be accurate, for they arrive at their destination in 1460, at the bloodiest period of the Wars of the Roses. Apart from being clever, Kings of Albion is also funny, with anachronism being used in a creative and humorous fashion... This sort of pre-echo is used to evoke films, plays, books, and twentieth century physics without technically breaking the historical mode of the novel. Appartiene alle Collane Editoriali
Turning the adventure stories of empire and colonialism upside down, from Rider Haggard to Conrad, Julian Rathbone introduces into the Wars of the Roses, at their most terrible and bloody climax, three sophisticated and highly civilised easterners from South India who are on a mission to trace the Prince of Vijayanagara's long-lost brother. Through their eyes the heart of darkness that was England is revealed. The result is a take on medieval England during its most gross and savage period, filled with battles, disease, treasure, with rival factions battling for a crown with a ferocity worthy of Rider Haggard's lost tribes of Africa. But it is also the period of the proto-reformation foreshadowed by the great English Franciscans, Roger Bacon, Occam and Wycliffe, and their followers - the terribly persecuted Lollards and Brothers of the Free Spirit. KINGS OF ALBION is a wonderful book, richly descriptive, packed with action, savage and erotic, but informed with a spirit of inquiry and speculation that lifts it far above the conventional history novel. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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