The Republic Rose On the lam for an

On the lam for an act of violence against the American government

It is a masterpiece from one of the world’s most innovative writers

Koestenbaum's fables--emergency bulletins uttered in a perverse vernacular of syntactic pirouettes--alert us to the necessity of pushing language into new contortions of exactitude and ecstatic excess

and increasingly riven by violence and strife within

The Republic Rose On the lam for anAuthor Contributor(s): Plato; Rowe, Christopher; Rowe, Christopher; Rowe, Christopher Publisher: Penguin Classics Date: 12 24 2012 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW An authoritative new translation of Plato's foundational work of Western philosophy The Republic is Plato's masterwork. It was written 2,400 years ago and remains one of the most widely read books in the world, famous for both the richness of its ideas and the virtuosity of its writing.