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Loading... The Vengeance Of Rome (original 2006; edition 2007)by Michael Moorcock (Auteur)
Work InformationThe Vengeance of Rome by Michael Moorcock (2006)
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Born in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish antisemite, Pyat careered through three decades like a runaway train. Bisexual, cocaine-loving engineer/inventor/spy, he enthusiastically embraces Fascism. But his extraordinary luck leaves him after he witnesses Hitler's massacre of R hm and the SA. At last he is swallowed up in a Dachau concentration camp. Thirty years later, having survived the Spanish Civil War, he is living in Portobello Road and telling his tale to a writer called Moorcock. No library descriptions found. |
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 Google Books — Loading...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage: (3.71)
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A deliberately over the top narrative arch involving real people from the early 20th Century collide with the semi-delusional recollections of the main character. The evils of Nazism and Fascism are brought vividly to life but also the sights and smells of the cities of Italy and Germany in the early 1930's. Wonderful fictional characters like the exuberant cockney singer and actress Mrs Cornelius (the mother of Jerry Cornelius, a famous Moorcockian protagonist) mix with Herman Goring, Ernst Rohm, Benito Mussolini and a disturbing cameo from Adolf Hitler himself.
But at the centre of course is 'Colonel Pyat,' probably the most unreliable narrator of them all. The ending of this four volume epic is particularly sad and poignant. (