The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.
Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caes...
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.
Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshipping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.
Marcus Aurelius has been enormously overrated as a philosopher. People- especially schoolers- are so thrilled that an emperor can even write his own name that they tend to exaggerate the value of his literary productions. (查看原文)
" We have had differences, the Caesar Julian and I, but I think that he will find when he fills my Place that the earth seems not so big as he thought it was from his previous place or from any other place, saving this summit where there can be but one manand a single responsibility for all men, and great decisions to be made, often in haste and sometimes regretted. We are not to be understood by any except our own kind. My most noble cousin and heir will know what I mean when he takes up the orb I have let go. Now in death I am his constant brother in the Purple and from whatever place God sees fit to putmy soul I shall observe his deeds with fellow-feeling and hope that as he comes to know the singularity of his new estate-and its cruel isolation -he will understand if not forgive his pr... (查看原文)
最后几章我真是看得死去活来。当Gore Vidal不尝试用他的辛辣刻薄来掩盖伤痛的时候，文章就极为感人。对几次离别的描写非常动人：和亲哥的，和堂哥的，和Helena的，和阿波罗神庙的，还有那种对宫廷场景墓穴一般的刻画。尤利安到底还是四世纪的孩子，这一点从始至终都让我心碎。（PS. 我有点怀疑开头对那种紧张的告密气氛的描写是在映射麦卡锡……but who knows.
看完心情复杂，像是在看夕阳西下。Tell the King: on earth has fallen the glorious dwelling, and the water-springs that spoke are still. Nothing is left the god, no roof, no shelter, and in his hand the prophet laurel f...看完心情复杂，像是在看夕阳西下。Tell the King: on earth has fallen the glorious dwelling, and the water-springs that spoke are still. Nothing is left the god, no roof, no shelter, and in his hand the prophet laurel flowers no more.(展开)
0 有用 GGH&& 2020-03-09 06:34:09
最后几章我真是看得死去活来。当Gore Vidal不尝试用他的辛辣刻薄来掩盖伤痛的时候，文章就极为感人。对几次离别的描写非常动人：和亲哥的，和堂哥的，和Helena的，和阿波罗神庙的，还有那种对宫廷场景墓穴一般的刻画。尤利安到底还是四世纪的孩子，这一点从始至终都让我心碎。（PS. 我有点怀疑开头对那种紧张的告密气氛的描写是在映射麦卡锡……but who knows.
0 有用 窠长 2024-01-11 14:38:31 云南
看完心情复杂，像是在看夕阳西下。Tell the King: on earth has fallen the glorious dwelling, and the water-springs that spoke are still. Nothing is left the god, no roof, no shelter, and in his hand the prophet laurel f... 看完心情复杂，像是在看夕阳西下。Tell the King: on earth has fallen the glorious dwelling, and the water-springs that spoke are still. Nothing is left the god, no roof, no shelter, and in his hand the prophet laurel flowers no more. (展开)
0 有用 Mephistopheles 2025-01-10 19:37:18 德国
听过 开车伴侣。体例挺好玩，两个身边的哲学家在皇上死后获得他的自传遗稿，于是有尤利安自述以及这俩人书信往来和批注——虽然觉得尤利安肯定不会真写这些事。还被喂了意想不到的骨科，疯逼美人伽卢斯。尤利安的故事就是，虽然知道结局，但忍不住想跟他一起下地狱。还会想如果他在任何一步有别的选择，千年以来的历史会怎么改，万恶之源一神教
1 有用 asterisk 2018-03-20 00:46:26
历史就是这样，你已经知道结局，仍然忍不住去想那些如果
1 有用 Kana 2017-10-29 16:14:52
倒数二十页开始暴击，“他是我见过最耀眼的人，当我们的视线交汇时他冲我笑了笑，我对自己说这是个圣人，为什么人们恨他？后来我明白了，时至今日我依然不明白的是他为什么恨我们。”