Word: fadiman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined not by a historian but by a novelist. Author Kostolanyi, a Hungarian who writes in German, well translated by Clifton P. Fadiman, makes him a weak man, a pathetic youth unable to learn how to live, "a bad poet and a bad ruler." Whether this is what Nero was in truth, no man can say. But his character, so presented, has the truth of fiction, the illusion of reality. The book reaches...