Not Like the Sun: Shakespeare's Love Affair
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About This Novel
Regarding Shakespeare, Burgess wrote two works. In addition to the biography "Shakespeare", it is "Not Like the Sun", a fictional account of Shakespeare's love life. The title of the book is taken from Shakespeare's Sonnet 130: "My lover's eyes are not like the sun." Unlike "Shakespeare", which reproduces the writer's life completely fictitiously, "Not Like the Sun" is Burgess's attempt to enter the inner sanctum of Shakespeare's inner life. The dazzling language style makes it seem as if Shakespeare himself has merged into Burgess's body, creating in a unified way. The author uses his profound attainments in Shakespeare and classical literature, coupled with the novelist's unparalleled talent and imagination, to create a personal history of Shakespeare full of desire, betrayal, and spiritual and physical struggle, and from it reveals the true meaning of artistic creation. This book was selected into the "Western Canon" and Harold Bloom, the leading scholar of Shakespeare, praised it as "the most wonderful and powerful literary biography of Shakespeare".
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