Title: The Vampire Marius
Genre: Fantasy Gothic
Author: Anne Rice
Year: 2001
Publisher: Tea
Plot
awakened after a thousand years of sleep in a cave under the ice, the vampire Thorne wants to understand the events that saw with her mediumship abilities. Then start looking for Marius, one of the Sons of the millennium, which tells its own story. Starting from the transformation into a vampire when he was a Roman of the first century BC, through the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages until the modern age, when she meets Lestat and reveals the secret of the Divine Parents, Marius concludes the story with the awakening Akasha Queen of the work of the music of Lestat and his insane desire to destroy all the males to create an empire of the sun vampire. But his story is just pushing to kill Santino Thorne, thus avenging the wrongs they have suffered from Marius, and it loses all chance of salvation.
Comment
The vampire Marius is the eighth book of The Chronicles of the Vampires cycle and feels very much its dependence on other novels. We understand very well alone, but the beginning is all told in a hurry, not to repeat the story told in earlier books, and this tends to get bored. But then he gets to the heart of the narrative with the talent of Marius and Rice is revealed again. After Louis and Lestat was convinced that I can not attach to another character of Rice, that there would have been another vampire so well characterized and full of charisma. Once again I was wrong. Marius is passionate as Lestat and Louis, but it shows differently. Calm and rational, love the harmony and order, and even in anger can contain the violence. However, and herein lies the tragic side of his character, Marius is a dominator. Do not agree to have equal, is attached to the outside world but regrets not being able to act freely and unconditionally. All that love should be placed under its control and obey him, follow his will and his rules. And the more these things and people are fragile and delicate, the more he will holds, because they need him as the protector and teacher. This is also why he can not get away from those-who-must-be-preserved, although it is an illusion because Akasha was never really needed him. His character brings him to drift away all suffering. Pandora abandon him because he wants the freedom he refuses, and Avicus Mael have departed by the same due to the secret of the Divine Parents and Bianca runs away because of his deception. Near him is impossible because his desire to manipulate and control everything, whereas others often a weight or less to be able to understand, is his characteristic habit. Even when it seems to have settled, that her strong will Thorne will work through power to get what he wants, or the death of Santino, this would put an order against it.
Marius almost dominates the whole scene, but the environment plays an important role, ranging with ease from the decadent Rome to medieval Florence and Venice Renaissance. The culture of different eras alive through the eyes and vital ancient vampire, who embody the beauty and mystery of the places we live and the events which they live. Marius Roman remains attached to the ideal of beauty, elegance reminiscent of the Hellenistic Eudoxia, Bianca straight out of a painting by Botticelli. Perhaps, but this is more a personal interpretation, Akasha awakened refers at some anarchist feminist spirit that still has not completely extinguished. Also interesting is the Order of the Talamasca, which would have been nice to have more information and a more prominent role.
The writing is sublime tone, though not cloying. If you really want to find fault, as I said before the start is slow and uninteresting, and Thorne deserved to be investigated. Apart from that, the vampire Marius is a gothic novel that offers psychological interpretations, as well as esoteric and religious, should not be underestimated.
rating
8 - Very Good
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