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Una vita tumultuosa quella di Sant'Agostino: nato ricco e immerso in una cultura pagana, il suo percorso tormentato lo condusse fino a diventare uno dei massimi teorici del Cristianesimo del primo millennio, nonché uno dei più grandi pensatori nella storia dell'umanità. Questo è il romanzo di una conversione, in cui un giovane vanesio, con un insaziabile desiderio di scoprire il senso della vita e un'attrazione altrettanto insaziabile per il peccato, non solo diventò credente, ma si trasformò in un intellettuale geniale che ha lasciato un'impronta indelebile nella storia. Raccontando le curiosità private della sua vita e i personaggi che lo influenzarono, dalla figura eroica della madre, santa Monica, al grande Ambrogio vescovo di Milano, Louis de Wohl tratteggia il ritratto vigoroso di un personaggio immortale, mai così vicino a ognuno di noi.
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- Pagine: 350
- Data di uscita: 21-05-2015
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3.5 stars ENGLISH: Biographical novel about the life of Saint Augustine, based on The Confessions of St. Augustine . Perhaps for this reason the novel skips about forty years of Augustine's life, starting at his conversion. Only his last two years have been added at the end of the novel, as book eight Leggi tutto
Beautiful and inspiring story. Makes me want to read more of Saint Augustine’s writings. I would have liked for there to be more details about certain times in his life. I’m assuming not much information is out there, hence the lack of it in this book. May God be praised in His saints.
Having dropped The Brothers Karamazov and realizing I will have to resort to Cliff Notes before my book club meets (there's a first time for everything), I am moving on to the next BIG BOOK they chose. The Confessions by St. Augustine. Now I love St. Augustine. He is my first "saint pal" so to speak. Leggi tutto
I'nm not loving this book, a selection of my book group. it's an historical novel based on the life of St. Augustine which, might, I suppose be nice for a young middle school student. perhaps that was the intended audience. I find no errors, but a lack of depth. And frankly, although he's not yet fo Leggi tutto
De Wohl knows how to end books. It was going to be four stars right up until the last 10%… writing a novel about Augustine is a big undertaking. De Wohl deserves credit for what he has put out.
De Wohl does a marvelous job of incorporating historical facts about the life of Augustine into his novel. As someone who has read some of Augustine's works and studied his life, I found it fun to identify the way De Wohl interweaves these facts into the story. I also liked seeing Augustine as someo Leggi tutto
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