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Article: Platon etait malade.(Review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Claude Pujade-Renaud. Platon etait malade. Arles, France. Actes Sud. 1999. 312 pages. 229 F. ISBN 2-7427-2344.7.
Claude Pujade-Renaud's latest novel is brilliant, profound, and original. It focuses on a writer suffering from grave problems concerning the veracity of his words, feelings, and conclusions relating to a traumatic event in his life. What makes the author's task difficult is the fact that she is not dealing simply with just any writer, but with Plato. While basing her plot on a real event -- Socrates' death in 399 B.C.E. -- she sounds out the manner in which those present on the last day of their master's life both envisioned and reacted to it. As ...