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Named One of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Fiction Books of 2015
Epic Praise for Captivity
“Captivity is a complex and fast-paced tale of Jewish life in the early first century, a sort of sword-and-sandals saga as reimagined by Henry Roth. The narrative follows Uri from Rome to Jerusalem and back, from prospectless dreamer to political operative to pogrom survivor—who along the way also happens to dine with Herod Antipas and Pontius Pilate and get thrown into a cell with a certain Galilean rabble-rouser. Hungarian György Spiró’s deft combination of philosophical inquiry and page-turning brio should overcome that oft-mentioned American timidity toward books in translation.”
—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal, Ten Best Fiction Books of 2015
“Ben Hur, but bigger and better. Hungarian writer György Spiró’s newly translated novel Captivity powerfully sets the perils of modern Jewry in Early Christian Rome.… Captivity draws you in with its pageant of the classical world, but by the end it also turns out to be a profound meditation on what Judaism meant, and means.”
—Adam Kirsch, Tablet
"With the novel Captivity, Spiró proves that he is well-versed in both historical and human knowledge. It appears that in our times, it is playfulness that is expected of literary works, rather than the portrayal of realistic questions and conflicts. As if the two, playfulness and seriousness, were inconsistent with each other! On the contrary (at least for me), playfulness begins with seriousness. Literature is a serious game. So is Spiró’s novel."
—Imre Kertész, Nobel Prize–winning author of Fatelessness
“This remarkable novel, recently translated from the Hungarian, is as close as we are likely to get to a real feel for how it was to live in the first century CE.… A faithful, fantastically informed, and extravagantly detailed picture of one of the most turbulent and consequential moments in human history.”
—Rabbi David Wolpe, Los Angeles Review of Books
Born in 1946 in Budapest, award-winning dramatist, novelist, and translator György Spiró has earned a reputation as one of postwar Hungary’s most prominent and prolific literary figures. He is the author of four novels and more than forty plays, and his works have received over thirty awards and prizes.
Tim Wilkinson gave up his job in the pharmaceutical industry to translate Hungarian literature and history. He is the primary translator of Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertész. Wilkinson’s translation of Kertész’s Fatelessness won the PEN Club/Book of the Month Translation Prize in 2005.
Captivity edition by György Spiró Tim Wilkinson Religion Spirituality eBooks
I want to respond to those reviewers who couldn't get past the first hundred pages or so. It's true, I struggled also past those parts, but I was rewarded when I reached the Alexandria chapter. From that point on, the story and the writing are just magnificent. I cried during the story of the Bane, and I cried when I finished the book. I even tried to read slower than usual because i anticipated reaching the ending and that upset me.If you think the book is too putridly graphic, then you shouldn't read any history from this period. I was especially struck at how so much misfortune struck , but no one cared if it didn't directly affect them. In a way, this isn't too different from our world today. The scene with Theo was heartwrenching, but the author masterfully captures Uri's resignation to this turn of events, and just 2 pages later he's moved on with his life.
Again, you need to be patient at first, but this book will eventually astound you. i devoured it in one weekend.
As to charges of antisemitism- I'm dumbfounded by that. If anything, he makes the Nazarenes seem to be the most foolish of any of the characters. I was pleased when uri tells them that it's very unlikely Pilate had any idea who Jesus was when he condemned him. Most historians will agree that the Barrabas scene with Pilate is the most fictional part of the gospels. I was struck by how forthcoming spiro was about this/ if anything, there should be charges of him being anti-Christian.
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Captivity edition by György Spiró Tim Wilkinson Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
An amazing feat of historical research rendered as fiction and translated if not well, then well enough.
Good historical fiction on an important period in the nascent Christian fsith
Excellent. I learned so much about real living in ancient Rome and the Levant. Sorry when it ended.
Nothing short of brilliant. Great depth of research. A historical error here and there, yet a great work. A must read for any serious student of history.
I am curious about the lives of Jews in Rome during the era of Roman occupation of Israel. were the Jews of Rome than considered second class citizens due to the concurrent war of Rome against the Jewish home country. The book is long and complex. I use the book just for dipping into and reading some pages, and dipping again. there is so much research here, and the translation is excellent. Me,personally, just me, I had trouble reading it sequentially, it's just too dense, but as I say, my dipping and reading is very satisfying.
CAPTIVITY is a very long book but it's worth the effort to read it. Briefly, this is the tale of a young man's journey to find himself in an ever changing world. The young man is a Jew living in Rome during the time of Christ. He travels to what is now Israel with a band of fellow travelers who abandon him along the way, is jailed in Jerusalem with Jesus, and has other adventures. He met many significant leaders of the era including Caligula.
It's worth a read.
The novel is truly historical in content, with a story thrown in for good measure. I happen to admire a well researched historical novel thus the 3-Star rating. Overlooking the spelling and grammatical errors of the book's translation (from the original Hungarian); We find a very promising story about a small, near-sighted boy with absolutely no effort on his part, finds himself held to the highest regard by Kings, Pilates, Caesars, and others. He even gets to meet Jesus, in person. However great he seems, he still has no place in his Jewish Community. The story declines from that level to the many ways Jews were prosecuted and killed by Romans, Greeks and by Jews alike. He never even tells those early Christians about meeting Christ.
I want to respond to those reviewers who couldn't get past the first hundred pages or so. It's true, I struggled also past those parts, but I was rewarded when I reached the Alexandria chapter. From that point on, the story and the writing are just magnificent. I cried during the story of the Bane, and I cried when I finished the book. I even tried to read slower than usual because i anticipated reaching the ending and that upset me.
If you think the book is too putridly graphic, then you shouldn't read any history from this period. I was especially struck at how so much misfortune struck , but no one cared if it didn't directly affect them. In a way, this isn't too different from our world today. The scene with Theo was heartwrenching, but the author masterfully captures Uri's resignation to this turn of events, and just 2 pages later he's moved on with his life.
Again, you need to be patient at first, but this book will eventually astound you. i devoured it in one weekend.
As to charges of antisemitism- I'm dumbfounded by that. If anything, he makes the Nazarenes seem to be the most foolish of any of the characters. I was pleased when uri tells them that it's very unlikely Pilate had any idea who Jesus was when he condemned him. Most historians will agree that the Barrabas scene with Pilate is the most fictional part of the gospels. I was struck by how forthcoming spiro was about this/ if anything, there should be charges of him being anti-Christian.
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