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By Tom Geue

The satirist Juvenal continues to be certainly one of antiquity's maximum query marks. His Satires entered the mainstream of the classical culture with not anything greater than an doubtful identify and a doubtful biography to suggest them. Tom Geue argues that the lacking writer determine isn't any mere casualty of time's passage, yet a startling, concerted influence of the Satires themselves. Scribbling harmful social critique less than a ancient greatest of paranoia, Juvenal harnessed this darkish power by means of wiping all strains of himself - signature, physique, biographical snippets, social connections - from his reticent texts. This final significant ambassador of a as soon as self-betraying style took a thorough bounce into the nameless. Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity tracks this mystifying self-concealment over the total Juvenalian corpus. via probing shut readings, it exhibits how very important the lacking writer used to be to this satire, and the way that absence echoes and amplifies the neurotic politics of writing less than surveillance.

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