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| Original Title: | Creation |
| ISBN: | 0385507623 (ISBN13: 9780385507622) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Gore Vidal
Hardcover | Pages: 574 pages Rating: 4.22 | 3595 Users | 303 Reviews
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Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war, philosophy, and adventure . . . "There isn't a page of CREATION that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight." -- John Leonard, The New York Times
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| Title | : | Creation |
| Author | : | Gore Vidal |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Restored Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 574 pages |
| Published | : | September 10th 2002 by Doubleday (first published 1981) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Literature. Novels |
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Ratings: 4.22 From 3595 Users | 303 ReviewsDiscuss Epithetical Books Creation
This novel is basically an exploration of the question "If God created the universe, then who created God?" through the device of a Persian grandee-but-not-noble that travels between Greece and China around 400 BC. The funny thing is that nowadays many people end up on their own spiritual journey, starting with their own faith tradition then learning about those of others, and come up with as few definite answers as the protagonist Cyrus Spitama does in this novel. I greatly enjoyed theCreation is my most favourite novel on the subject of an ancient history, and not because it had opened my eyes to some antediluvian clandestine truths but because of its freewheeling stylishness.I am blind. But I am not deaf. Because of the incompleteness of my misfortune, I was obliged yesterday to listen for nearly six hours to a self-styled historian whose account of what the Athenians like to call the Persian Wars was nonsense of a sort that were I less old and more privileged, I would have
This is a magnificent novel by Gore Vidal. I had read a translation of it many years ago. However a few weeks ago Vidal was in Toronto and that was how I began looking at the novel again. For those Iranians who were angry at the movie 300, this book works as a relief. The narrator is an imaginary Cyrus Spitama, who Vidal describes as the grandson of Zoroaster (Zarathushtra). I have to add that Zoroaster lived somewhere between 4000 to 7000 years ago. Recent studies are in favour of 7000,
In many ways, Creation can lay claim to being the motherlode of all historical fiction novels. What a period Vidal chose to write about! He simpky couldn't have picked a more fertile time. Requiring only a little elasticity with regards to the accepted dates, the roll call of historical heavyweights making an appearance in this book is simply astonishing.Pericles, Xerxes, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Zoroaster - names to conjure with one and all.Persian diplomat Cyrus Spitama, grandson of
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Hey Petra thanks for the like : ) As full of himself mr. Vidal was, this book is such a masterwork! I'd like to read it again sometime.
This is less a novel than a guided tour of ancient philosophy all held together through the tenuous threads of one (fictional) mans life. Cyrus Spitama is a Persian in service to the king of kings of Persia, where he encounters many of the most famous men of the age. The fifth century BC was an amazing time in world history. In Greece you have Socrates, Anaxagoras, Democritus; in Persia there is Zoroaster (at least possibly, though I suspect he was much earlier); in India you have Mahavira,
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