Tiberius Caesar

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A great work of literature <em>and </em>a profound reflection on state terror from a man who spent forty years fighting one.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tiberius Caesar--a free standing work in its own right--completes Boche?ski's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Notorious Roman Trilogy</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>--probably the most important literary work to come out of Eastern Europe since World War II.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After the picaresque volume 1 </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Divine Julius</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (how to overthrow a republic in four easy steps) and the poetic volume 2 </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Naso the Poet </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>(how under tyranny poetry can get you into trouble) comes volume three </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tiberius Caesar</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>: a horrifying tale of the second emperor of Rome: the man who normalized political terror. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A brilliant work of literature with deeply moving passages of beautiful prose many of which would stand as independent essays:</span></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>how the police state hires its executioners</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>what it is like to read--perhaps better said: to work through--Tacitus in his original Latin</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>an evocative (and hilarious) description of a summer night on Capri in 1970</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>an imaginary visit to a Roman bordello in AD 16</span></li><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>a moving scene of Cocceius Nerva reading Cicero's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: var(--__N4QdCheV6mGo#0f1111)>On the Laws</em></li></ul><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you enjoy the rich prose of writers like Kazuo Ishiguro or Orhan Pamuk the style of this book will astonish and delight you..</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And if in your pleasant and secure life in a Western constitutional democracy you have grown complacent and bored with all the freedoms you take for granted--you should read this as a warning. Because you should be afraid. You should be very afraid. If you lose your democracy this is what you will have.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is a very beautiful and a very important book. Don't miss it. Pick up your copy today.</strong></p>