by Arthur Koestler · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422647478
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«Espartaco» is the historical novel by Arthur Koestler, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the 1st century BC, it narrates the uprising of Spartacus, a Thracian slave who comes to lead a revolt of a hundred thousand slaves against the Roman Republic. The novel explores the internal contradictions of that rebellion and the conflict between the ideal of freedom and the means to achieve it.
The work was originally published as The Gladiators in 1939. Edition with translation by María Eugenia Ciocchini and introduction by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
For readers of historical fiction and 20th-century classics, especially those interested in ancient Rome and the rebellions that marked its history.
Arthur Koestler was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany but resigned in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism.
