Each of the book's four sections returns to the same unfolding drama, but within successively wider frames, like a movie camera dollying back to reveal more context.Īs it does so, we enter into the life of Rome as republican government is giving way to empire. Wilder does not so much tell this story as meditate on it. of Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome.
In fact, it deals with one of history's best-known stories: the events surrounding the assassination in 44 B.C. It is by no means a suspense novel that races (or even lopes) toward its climax. OL482892W Page_number_confidence 90.58 Pages 310 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201105154833 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 358 Scandate 20201104172544 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780060088903 Tts_version 4.I've reread Thorton Wilder's The Ides of March many times, always with the equivalent of a slight mental frown: Why do I like this book so much? PublisherĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:32:54 Boxid IA1993215 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier All Rome comes crowding through these pages - the Rome of villas and slums, beautiful women and brawling youths, spies and assassins. Wilder also resurrects the controversial figures surrounding Caesar - Cleopatra, Catullus, Cicero, and others. In this inventive narrative, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities.
The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel.
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