by Luis Antonio de Villena · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420465968
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«La nave de los muchachos griegos: vita Petronii» is the novel by Luis Antonio de Villena, published by Alfaguara in paperback (274 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the final years of Petronius, author of the Satyricon and arbiter of elegance in Nero's time, and his determination to turn love of young men and literature into an art of living. It portrays an era and a pagan ideal, and leaps to other figures —Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter, Maurice Sachs, William Burroughs— united by their fascination with Greek beauty.
Subtitled «vita Petronii», it was published in 2003 and belongs to contemporary fiction; the work centers on Petronius (Petronius Arbiter).
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Roman history, the figure of Petronius and the aesthetic ideals of classical Greece.
Spanish writer, poet and literary critic
