Fulgentius (Paperback)

By profession I am a soldier, a general in the glorious Roman army. As a playwright, I think of myself as a sublime amateur. In Cesar Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia.He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though of exactly one play) and in every city he pacifies, he stages a grand production of his farcical tragedy (written at the tender age of twelve) about a man who becomes a famous general only to be murdered "at the hands of shadowy foreigners." Curiously, what he had imagined as a child turns out to be the story of his life, almost. As the playwright-turned-general broods obsessively about his only work, the magnificent Lupine Legion-"a city in movement" of 6,000 men, an invincible corps of seasoned fighters wearing their signature wolfskin caps-kills, burns, pillages, and loots their way to victory. But what does victory mean?

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2023
Authors:	Cesar Aira
Translators:	Chris Andrews
Dimensions:	178 x 127mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-3169-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Fantasy Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	0-8112-3169-0
Barcode:	9780811231695

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