Calpurnia's Dream - Softcover

Alonso, Maria Lourdes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502842734 ISBN 13: 9781502842732

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

"Calpurnia's Dream" is in fact, a long, long letter that Caesar's widow writes to her late husband, showing all her pain, scarce self-confidence and passionate love for him. But, simultaneously, she also reveals us a unique account of Julius Caear's Rome through her eyes, in which shamanism , historical perspective and a profound analysis of female psychology are combined. Calpurnia Caesaris, like King Arthur's Queen in "Gades y Camelot", is a highly charismatic man's sensuous wife who is still madly in love with her lord and has to face the risk of being repudiated due to her barrenness. She desperately seeks for a way of her own that might enable her to survive her crisis. Her turning point comes through a wise man and a Celtic priestess who initiate her into some kind of unusual healing which was reserved to high-ranked ladies in the past. This story also offers us the chance to see historical characters from an unknown perspective, such as that deep genuine friendship the heroine shares with Marcus Portius Cato's daughter and wife and , on the other hand , with Sulla's daughter. Caesar is an ageing though still magnetic man, torn between bitter irony and ambition.. Praise for M.L.Alonso's works "Las mujeres de Wagner": A.Reverter in "Ars canendi" (Radio Clásica) (5/5/2013)."Interesante y enjundioso trabajo.Felicitamos a María L.Alonso ". C. De Matesanz in "Viaje a Ítaca" (Radio Clásica) (25/4/2013)"Ensayo claro y completo que recomendamos" "La autora realiza una interesante incursión en el mundo de la magia celta según fue versionada por G.A.Bécquer, Oscar Wilde y ha sido posteriormente recogida por la moderna literatura artúrica(...)La importancia del mundo feérico en la poesía becqueriana, la presencia del arquetipo de la triple diosa en el excesivo y romántico Oscar Wilde y el papel de la doncella cazadora y la diosa madre, las sacerdotisas de Avalon y el reino de las hadas son algunos temas en los que Lourdes Alonso, pertrechada de una excelente cultura literaria y mitológica se detiene y cuya lectura recomendamos" (About "La magia celta según G.A.Bécquer, Oscar Wilde y la novela artúrica contemporánea" in MAS ALLA DE LA CIENCIA,nº129:November,1999).

About this title

About the Author:

María L. Alonso is a novelist, researcher and artist painter. The main subject of her books are Arthurian Literature, Ancient Rome, Symbolic Anthropology, Arts and Opera. She has published nine essays and five novels, got a University degree on English Literature and completed her studies at the University of London. Also by M.L.Alonso: Las mujeres de Wagner" "Las hadas de Bécquer y Wilde" "Wagner's Women" "El sueño de Calpurnia" "La Triple Diosa y el rey Arturo" "The Triple Goddess in Oscar Wilde's Salome" "Gades y Camelot" "Solidaridad femenina en los romances literarios ingleses" "El lamento de Calipso" "Magia y Eros en Shakespeare y Wagner: Cuando Tristan y Romeo encontraron a Isolda y Julieta."

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1502842734
• ISBN 13: 9781502842732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210
• Illustrator: Alonso Gomez Maria Lourdes