Nero, A Véres Költő by Dezső Kosztolányi

A haunting, impressionistic portrait of an imperial artist whose hunger for applause and aesthetic perfection warps into cruelty and megalomania; the narrative follows the rise and fall of a charismatic ruler who treats life as a stage, blending poetic sensitivity and theatrical obsession with violence, betrayal and paranoia, until personal vanities and moral decay lead to isolation and ruin against the ruinous spectacle of a collapsing world.

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