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3.0 out of 5 stars
A mixed experience,
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This review is from: Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra (Sun & Moon Classics) (Paperback)
First, this is not as the book description says, "poetry, Russia, tr Lyn Hejinian & Elena Balashova". It is a novelization of Cleopatra's life, told partly from the point of view of letters from her ladies-in-waiting Charmian and Iras. Not nearly as good as Margaret George's Memoirs of Cleopatra, it is a very uneven book, focusing at length in often wordy prose on insignificant details and ignoring the major ones. Cleopatra's own story seems also to be told at a distance, so that one is always an observer, and never an experiencer of the times. Butts however has a few rare moments of inspiration though, as when she describes Cleoptra leaving Caesar's bedchamber and proudly walking past his Roman guards!
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Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra by Mary Butts (Hardcover - Oct. 1974)
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