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Recomendación de Librosyliteratura.es, escrita por Roberto Maydana
¿Qué dirán de los famosos, políticos o escritores actuales dentro de dos mil años? ¿Quiénes serán los encargados de contarle a los habitantes de aquellos futuros tiempos las hazañas, proezas, mentiras o/y pensamientos de los que ahora conformamos la realidad cotidiana? Y lo que es mejor (o peor) ¿Serán fieles a la hora de relatar el futuro pasado?

Luego de leer Cleopatra, estoy seguro de que si la reina del Nilo se levantara de su tumba (si es que está enterrada en algún lugar) y se encontrara con todo lo que se dice sobre ella elegiría volver a envenenarse y seguir descansando en paz.

Como bien explica Stacy Schiff, la autora de este interesante libro, Cleopatra es tal vez una de las celebridades del pasado más mencionadas (está presente en libros, películas perfumes, cajetillas de cigarrillos, obras de teatro y hasta en el nombre de un satélite) pero a la vez una de las menos conocidas y más falseadas de la historia. Cleopatra fue de todo, pero nunca fue como todos dicen que fue... o al menos no al extremo que lo dicen.

Estoy seguro que si a diez personas al azar le preguntan cuál era la principal característica de la última reina de Egipto siete u ocho responderían "su lujuria", "su perversidad" o "su belleza" Puede que no estén tan equivocados en cuando a su manera de concebir el sexo, pero sí estarán equivocados en pensar que Cleopatra vivía solo para revolcarse entre sábanas. Lo mismo ocurre con su perversidad, que nos llega contada, al igual que toda su vida, por sus principales adversarios: los romanos; y ni hablar de su belleza que hoy vemos en el cine reflejada en el rostro de Angelina Jolie... ¡Nada más lejos! ¡Si hay algo por lo que no resaltaba Cleopatra era por su belleza! ¡Si hasta tenía nariz gigante!

¿Alguno de los encuestados respondería que el personaje de este libro era una gran política, organizada, capaz de evitar por años la caída de un imperio egipcio que le fue entregado en plena decadencia, hábil para las negociaciones, con conocimientos de medicina y que hablaba seis o siete idiomas? Lo veo difícil, pero esas sí que son facetas reales de Cleopatra.

De esto va el libro que les recomiendo hoy; en él nos encontraremos con un retrato vivido de Cleopatra desde su nacimiento hasta su muerte, pero también de la época en la que vivió, de sus costumbres y de sus amores, entre los que se destacan dos de los hombres más importante de la época: Julio Cesar y Marco Antonio. Sin detenerse a detallar las batallas entre romanos y egipcios (aunque la lucha real sea entre dos romanos en guerra civil: Marco Antonio y Octaviano) el libro apunta a una visión más "femenina" (que no suene a machismo, por favor) que mira no tanto los hechos sino las sensaciones, emociones, colores, modas, hábitos y curiosidades cotidianas de un mundo totalmente diferente al actual, pero que sin embargo a veces se le parece demasiado si miramos las actitudes personales.

Cabe destacar, aunque me repita, la capacidad de la autora de no solo contarnos la biografía de Cleopatra, sino también de dejar bien claro en todo momento qué ideología, qué intereses y a qué bando pertenecían aquellos que se encargaron de dejar escritos superadores del tiempo con el fin de contarnos los que ellos quisieron contarnos acerca de una de las mujeres más famosas y fascinantes de la historia.

Invito, pues, a todos ustedes a leer Cleopatra, de Stacy Schiff: se la pasarán genial.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.

Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator.

Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and--after his murder--three more with his protégé. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since.

Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff 's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.

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