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Chargement... Blood of the Martyrs: How the Slaves in Rome Found Victory in Christ (Christian Epics) (original 1939; édition 1994)par Naomi Mitchison (Auteur), James S. Bell (Directeur de publication)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I really enjoyed reading this novel about persecution of Christians in Nero's Rome—which is probably a weird way to describe the experience of reading this book. What I think this novel did well is to include a cast of characters from different backgrounds and characters with widely different deeply held beliefs and make it all work. As pointed out in the introduction by Donald Smith, the novel was written in the late 1930s against the background of increasing tensions in Europe, and there are certainly parallels to persecution of Jews in the way the Christians are treated with suspicion and malicious rumours in the book. ( ) Comparable to Quo Vadis (or more broadly to Marius the Epicurean) and many others, this is about a Christian community in Neronian Rome --in this case largely a slave community, though one of the slaves is a British prince by birth--and their persecution when the Christians are blamed for the great fire of Rome. It is interesting that the author is the sister of J.B.S. Haldane, whose fantasy My Friend Mr. Leakey I very much like, but who is better known for his controversy with C.S. Lewis over Lewis's "Deep Heaven" novels (Haldane wrote "Auld Hornie F.R.S." to which Lewis replied.) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero's reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast of slaves, ordinary Roman people, exiles and entertainers, it is thorough in its historical interpretation and in its determination to make the past accessible and readable. Written in 1938-9, the novel contains many symbolic parallels to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s and the desperate plight of persecuted minorities such as the Jews and the left-wing activists with whom Naomi Mitchison personally campaigned at the time. With the invasion of Britain a real possibility, she felt compelled to write a testament to the power of human solidarity which, even faced with death, can overcome the worst that human evil can achieve. The Blood of the Martyrs is the least autobiographical of Mitchison's major works of fiction, yet, with its implicit credo, is her most passionately self-revealing. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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