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Der Roman des polnischen Schriftstellers beschreibt die Anfänge des Christentums in Rom zur Zeit Neros. Er wurde 1895 erstmals veröffentlicht. Inspiriert wurde Sienkiewicz von einer alten Legende über eine Begegnung des Apostels Petrus mit Jesus.
Der Roman erzählt die Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem jungen Patrizier Marcus Vinicius und Lygia, einer Königstochter vom Volk der Lygier, die als Geisel nach Rom kam. Sie ist Christin. Allmählich geraten die Liebenden in den Strudel der Ereignisse um die Christenverfolgungen im Jahr 64 unter Nero.
Als Prototypen der Christen werden Lygia und die gerade in Rom weilenden Apostel Petrus und Paulus beschrieben. Als ihre Gegner treten Nero, Poppaea Sabina und Tigellinus auf. Weitere wichtige Gestalten sind Petronius, der im Roman den Rang eines Kanzlers innehat, sowie der General im Ruhestand Aulus Plautius und dessen Ehefrau Pomponia Graecina (Lygias Adoptiveltern).
LanguageDeutsch
Release dateApr 22, 2014
ISBN9783955011673
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Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz also known by the pseudonym Litwos, was a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1896). Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces. In the late 1870s he traveled to the United States, sending back travel essays that won him popularity with Polish readers. In the 1880s he began serializing novels that further increased his popularity. He soon became one of the most popular Polish writers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and numerous translations gained him international renown, culminating in his receipt of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer." Many of his novels remain in print. In Poland he is best known for his "Trilogy" of historical novels, With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Sir Michael, set in the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; internationally he is best known for Quo Vadis, set in Nero's Rome. The Trilogy and Quo Vadis have been filmed, the latter several times, with Hollywood's 1951 version receiving the most international recognition.

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