The Dream of Scipio

Résumé du livre

Set in Provence at three crucial moments of Western civilization (the final collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and the World War II in the 20th), Pears presents the lives of three men. Manlius Hippomanes is an aristocrat, obsessively concerned with the preservation of Roman civilization; Olivier de Noyen is a poet; and Julian Barneuve is an intellectual who makes the mistake of joining the corrupt Vichy government. Pears weaves his discursive narrative through the troubled lives of each man--and three stories of love, all set in Provence.--