El sol olvidado, by Giuseppe Guiduccio, is a novel with poetic echoes that gives voice back to those history tried to erase. An intense work about identity, desire, and political memory.
She did not want to be named in the masculine, not even while she ruled Rome as Antoninus. She was a priestess of Elagabalus in an empire unable to find words to name her. After her assassination, history sealed her fate and disdainfully renamed her Heliogábalo. Since then, her memory has been trapped in a caricature of scandal, perversion, and excess.
