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Salambó Paperback – January 1, 2001

Spanish Edition by Gustave Flaubert (Author), Xavier Gisbert (Editor)
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Sin duda, Salambó es una novela histórica hasta ahora no superada, y que desde su aparición ha servido como modelo del género. Los acontecimientos que narra ocurren al finalizar la primera guerra púnica, cuando el ejercito de mercenarios formado por hombres de distintos pueblos se levanta contra Cartago. Las profundas investigaciones y lecturas que llevó a cabo Flaubert para esta prodigiosa reconstrucción histórica lo acercaron tanto a aquella realidad, que incluso hoy sigue causando asombro entre los estudiosos de esa antigua civilización. Descubrimientos arqueológicos posteriores a su muerte han demostrado la veracidad de muchos de sus detalles sobre aquella civilización mediterránea que durante tanto tiempo sostuvo un tenaz pulso histórico con Roma por el dominio de la Ecumene.
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  1. Print length
    384 pages
  2. Language
    Spanish
  3. Publisher
    Editorial Edaf, S.L.
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2001
  5. Dimensions
    4.25 x 1 x 7 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    8441405654
  7. ISBN-13
    978-8441405653
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Editorial Edaf, S.L. (January 1, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Spanish
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8441405654
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8441405653
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 1 x 7 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 118 ratings

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Jorge Campillo
3.0 out of 5 stars Excelente libro ya que corresponde a un clásico de la ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2014
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Excelente libro ya que corresponde a un clásico de la literatura, sin embargo la versión para la Kindle no es amigable.
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Graham Henderson
4.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful novel of Ancient Carthage
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2002
Salambo is Gustav Flaubert's carefully researched "novelization" of the actual conflict (241 - 238 B.C.E.) between Hamilcar Barca and Carthage on the one hand and an army of disaffected former mercenaries on the other. It was first published in 1862.
Flaubert envisages a terrified city reduced to human sacrifice in an effort to save itself. Outside the mighty walls roils a horde of mercenaries bent on the utter annihilation of Carthage. All manner of horror (described in at times gruesome detail) unfolds during the war - torture, crucifixion, murder, cannibalism, human sacrifice.
The mercenaries are led by Matho, a charismatic Gaul of immense strength - but with a fatal flaw. A chance meeting with the exquisite Salambo, high priestess of the goddess Tanit and daughter to Hamilcar Barca, nearly proves to be his undoing. He becomes obsessed with her. He contrives to steal the veil of Tanit - an icon sacred to Carthage, without which the city will surely perish. Only Salambo, or so it seems, can save the nation. But at what terrible cost?
This wonderful little gem caught me almost completely by surprise. I actually did not read it but listened to the audio cassette. I would at times sit in the drive way outside my house unable to stop listening. While at first glance not what one might expect from one of the masters of French Realism (who wanted to hold up a mirror to the world and show both the beauty of the sky and the filth of the mud in the street), it is in fact a meticulously researched and accurate recreation of the world of Carthage after the First Punic War-- a world about which nogt enough is known. So it is in that sense, entirely in keeping with Falubert's body of work.
When this book was published there had been a surge of interest in Carthage (See also The Young Carthaginian by G. A. Henty). Surprisingly, to me anyway, many of the Victorians preferred the Carthaginians to the bully boy Romans -- perhaps because their sympathy ultimately lay with the vanquished Greek civilization.
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lily G.
4.0 out of 5 stars Excelente novela, gran editorial...
Reviewed in Mexico on December 10, 2021
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Lo único que me disgusto fue que venía maltratado de una esquina, traía como un doblez, aunque sí venía sellado con papel transparente...
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DIEGO
5.0 out of 5 stars Me ha gustado
Reviewed in Spain on September 29, 2023
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Una historia muy interesante. Totalmente recomendable.
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Dem Green
3.0 out of 5 stars Regulin
Reviewed in Spain on January 30, 2014
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No es el maravilloso Madame Bovary, lo que demuestra que todos los creadores tienen sus más y sus menos. De todas formas, el buen oficio de escribrir de Flaubert no falla.
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leo moreno burgos.
4.0 out of 5 stars POR SU INTERES ARQUEOLOGICO.......
Reviewed in Spain on January 17, 2017
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Se trata de una obra de gran interrés histórico-arqueologico pues describe minuciosamente las guerra púnica de los mercenarios en el intento de la toma de Cartago con datos bastantes fidedignos tomados de la bibliografia griega y romana antigua. La ficción de la pri ncesa no tiene gran importancia.-
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ADRIAN ESPINOSA GOPNZALEZ
5.0 out of 5 stars Original
Reviewed in Spain on May 12, 2018
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Es un tanto cruel en algunos momentos pero se lee muy bien pues uno quiere saber como acaba el relato, al mismo tiempo nos muestra una época de desprecio por la vida de las personas y la crueldad con la que se trata a algunos , la versión está genial.
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