A Grand, Elaborate Story-Interview with György Spiró on the novel "Captivity" by Magda Ferch
A Grand, Elaborate Story-Interview with György Spiró on the novel "Captivity" by Magda Ferch

Summary/Abstract: The place is the Roman Empire; the time, the first century A.D. We follow the unusual life story of the novel’s ungainly, bookish hero from around Christ’s crucifixion to the end of the Jewish war—his journey from Rome to Jerusalem and other parts of Judea, and back to Rome via Alexandria. In some of your previous works you also dealt with the complex subject of the rise of Christianity. Not being a religious man, why are you drawn to this subject? [....]

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