by Thornton Wilder · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422678540
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«Los idus de marzo» is the epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (286 pages, in Spanish).
It recreates the last days of the Roman republic through letters, diaries and pamphlets attributed to Julius Caesar and his circle. Wilder composes a portrait of an egotistical but well-intentioned leader, blinded by power, walking towards a tragic outcome; it is also a critique of totalitarian regimes, with echoes of Mussolini.
Work originally published in 1948 as «The Ides of March». This Spanish edition includes a translation by María Martínez Sierra and a prologue by Jacinto Antón.
For readers interested in ancient Rome and epistolary fictions with a political background.
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
