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Salammbo
Gustave Flaubert
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After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammbô. In this volume, Flaubert describes in detail the Mercenary Revolt and the fight of the Mercenaries against the all-powerful Carthage, the theft of the magical Zaimph and the love and hate between the Carthaginian princess Salammbô and the fiercest leader of the Mercenaries, Matho.
After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammbô. In this volume, Flaubert describes in detail the Mercenary Revolt and the fight of the Mercenaries against the all-powerful Carthage, the theft of the magical Zaimph and the love and hate between the Carthaginian princess Salammbô and the fiercest leader of the Mercenaries, Matho.
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The Ancients had, in fact, fraudulently reduced them, and the corn sold during the most calamitous period of the war was set down at so low a rate that, blindness apart, it was impossible to believe it.
"Speak!" they shouted. "Louder! Ah! he is trying to lie, the coward! Don't trust him."
For some time he hesitated. At last he resumed his task.
The soldiers, without suspecting that they were being deceived, accepted the accounts of the Syssitia as true. But the abundance that had prevailed at Carthage made them furiously jealous. They broke open the sycamore chest; it was three parts empty. They had seen such sums coming out of it, that they thought it inexhaustible; Gisco must have buried some in his tent. They scaled the knapsacks. Matho led them, and as they shouted "The money! the money!" Gisco at last replied:
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You pass beneath the intimidating portcullis and enter the museum called Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert. It is an awesome edifice and you are duly awed. So ornate, so steeped in olden times and ancient ways, so stylish in its baroque Orientalism. The first gallery amazes you. It describes a feast for
Printre picături, mai citesc un capitol din Salammbô, la fel de dezamăgit. Am ajuns, iată, la bătălia de la Macar, adică pe la mijlocul romanului. Naratorul face risipă de pietre prețioase, de exotism oriental:
„Femeile nomazilor îşi fluturau pînă la călcîie rochiile lor ţesute în pătrăţele din păr r
A little human sacrifice, a touch of cannibalism, some slaughter of both soldiers and civilians, one or two crucifixions, there you have it, the mercenaries revolt against Carthage in 240 B.C. Yes I am being facetious, a great amount in all these categories in fact occurred, people played rough then
الرواية أتعبتني وأرهقتني كثيرًا رغم الوصف الباذخ في اللغة الذي يتمتع بها الكاتب، لكن هذه الرواية مليئة بالسادية والقتل والوحشية في وصف القتال وأكل لحوم البشر، قرقعة العظام وتهشيم الرؤوس، والأمراض الفتاكة الخ الخ .. لا أحب هذه النوعية من الروايات.
Es una novela que me encantó aunque algunas cosas hacen que no sea de mi total agrado. No sabía que la obra en realidad era una novela histórica, pues los acontecimientos narrados a lo largo de la obra tienen bastantes referencias reales.
Luego de leer a "Madame Bovary" quería conocer a otro Flaubert
Carthage holds a certain fascination for me, as a classics scholar, in that it was an empire of power, influence, and grand personalities--and yet the legacy Carthage has left to us, her history, her culture were deliberately erased, burned to the ground with nary a trace remaining, and then replace
I'd not intended to read Salammbô, Flaubert's close-to-unknown second novel, but I was at the end of Madame Bovary and saw a yellowing 1922 edition in the 1 Franc pile at the Geneva flea market's book stall. How could I resist? It's a strange book, and at first I had trouble getting into it. I'd exp