The Persian Boy - Buch
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1972
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Belletristik: Historischer Roman
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Englisch
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1973
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414
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Mary Renault's last novel, Fire From Heaven, covered the first twenty years of Alexander The Great's life, till he succeeded his murdered father, Philip II, as King of Macedon. Her new novel, The Persian boy, tells the extraordinary but true story of his last seven years during which, before his death at thirty-two, he carried his conquests to the eastern end of the known world.
The narrator of his brilliant and sometimes tragic career is Bagoas, a young Persian of celebrated beauty who, adrift from the court of the dead Persian King Darius, is taken into Alexander's household and becomes his favouirite attendant. Despite the vicissitudes of his campaigns, his two marriages, and his loyalty to his boyhood friend Hephaistion, Alexander bestows an enduring affection and trust upon Bagoas, who, braving the resentment of the victorious Macedonians, fosters the young conqueror's growing sympanthy with his Persian subjects, and comforts him in the isolation of his genius.
Bagoas is a real historical person, and one who may well have influenced the great events described. Seeing them in all the imaginative richness of detail with which Miss Renault presents them, one feels taht here, as in her other classical novels, she has arrived intuitively at the truth.
The narrator of his brilliant and sometimes tragic career is Bagoas, a young Persian of celebrated beauty who, adrift from the court of the dead Persian King Darius, is taken into Alexander's household and becomes his favouirite attendant. Despite the vicissitudes of his campaigns, his two marriages, and his loyalty to his boyhood friend Hephaistion, Alexander bestows an enduring affection and trust upon Bagoas, who, braving the resentment of the victorious Macedonians, fosters the young conqueror's growing sympanthy with his Persian subjects, and comforts him in the isolation of his genius.
Bagoas is a real historical person, and one who may well have influenced the great events described. Seeing them in all the imaginative richness of detail with which Miss Renault presents them, one feels taht here, as in her other classical novels, she has arrived intuitively at the truth.