03-08-2008, 10:14 PM
Quote:For a moment I was tempted to open a thread asking for "which other great novels are there?", but I suspected that somebody would start to mention "good reads", so I decided to leave it. But you are absolutely right about Vidal's Julian - which is indeed a superior piece of modern literature. Being Dutch, I would add Simon Vestdijk, De nadagen van Pilatus, which is much more profound and psychologically more convincing than the better-known I Claudius (review in Dutch).Jona Lendering:1dkhh1gr Wrote:Yourcenar. One of the few really convincing novels about Antiquity.That`s true, in addition to Gore Vidal`s great "Julian".