CICERO (ROBERT HARRIS)
(EN CASTELLANO DEBAJO) To all of us who are mourning the loss of Cullen McCullough and her Roman series about Caesar, there ‘s some consolation after all. Robert Harris, a bestselling author of commercial streak (can´t say I liked very much what I have read from him), has sort of excelled himself at a fictional account (perhaps “recreation” would be a better word) of Cicero, a contemporary of Caesar as well as a political rival, which covers the republic period of McCullough’s series. What makes Robert Harris’s Cicero so interesting is that his is a completely different point of view from McCullough. In McCullough’s series, the story evolved around Julius Caesar, whether as the leading actor or as a mere witness of the events. Nonetheless, as I read her series, I was left with the impression that McCullough loved the character of Julius Caesar (nothing wrong with that as usually writers write about characters they like) and she sort of glorified Caesar’s character. While Ci...