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Herodias

Gustave Flaubert

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. . .tanding on the banks of the stream, my lord; many of the people were putting on their raiment. Standing on a hillock, a strange man was speaking to the gathering. A camel's-skin was wrapped about his loins, and his head was like that of a lion. As soon as he saw me, he launched in my direction all the maledictions of the prophets. His eyes flamed, his voice shook, he raised his arms as if he would draw down lightning upon my head. I could not fly from him; the wheels of my chariot sank in the sand up to the middle; and I could only crawl along, hiding my head with my mantle, and frozen with terror at the curses that poured upon me like a storm from heaven!"

Continuing her harangue, she declared that the knowledge that this man still existed poisoned her very life. When he had been seized and bound with cords, the soldiers were prepared to stab him if he resisted, but he had been quite gentle and obedient. After he had been thrown into prison some one had put ve. . . Read More

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De Herodías veo bien poco. Esperaba más de Flaubert. Flojito.

Herodías es un relato escrito por Gustave Flaubert en 1877. Cuenta Guy de Maupassant en su prólogo que Flaubert es ante todo un artista, un autor impersonal que maneja las marionetas humanas que deben hablar por su boca y que se reserva el derecho a pensar por sí mismo, sin que se vean los hilos o s

En este cuento breve el autor nos relata el complot organizado por Herodía, esposa de Herodes Antipas (tetrarca de Perea y Galilea desde el 4 a. C. hasta el 39 d. C. personaje con un papel fundamental, según el Nuevo Testamento en los acontecimientos que desembocarían en la muerte tanto de San Juan

Uno de los últimos tres cuentos publicados por el incomparable escritor francés, en una bella edición con prólogo de Maupassant y una irreprochable traducción de Sergio del Valle.

La historia es bien conocida, legendaria: la larga jornada del festejo del cumpleaños de Herodes Antipa, en una vertigino

My spouse was taking a class about some stories by Gustave Flaubert. This was one of them. She and I had quite some discussion about the background of the story, which comes from the Bible. It seems that I've spent more time reading the Bible than she, so I was able to comment on some of the goings

Puanım 2/5 (%36/100)

Berbat değildi ama çok beğendiğimi de söyleyemem. Bir kitaba başlamadan önce genelde yorumlara bakan birisi olarak tarihten isimleri görmek beni çok zorlamadı. O yüzden kitaba başlamadan Kahin Yahya'nın hayatına bakmanızı tavsiye ederim. Roma tarihinden de birçok isim vardı: Hero

Herodías, escrita por Flaubert, no vas mas allá que la historia de Juan el Bautista, Herodes de Antipas y Herodías. Centrando todo su esfuerzo en la lucha entre las Herodías mundanas y los justos Iaokanan.

El torbellino de intereses políticos y religiosos que rodea a Herodes Antipas y su esposa es la

If we think at the Bible as a literary text, we might consider the story of John the Baptist as a story within a story. Flaubert writes a detailed and difficult analysis of the events and characters.
The book offers much food for thought. By the weakness of man to resist temptations, to sickly determ

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