Name: memoirs of hadrian,and reflections on the composition of memoirs of hadrian
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Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
ISBN: 9780374529260

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memoirs of hadrian,and reflections on the composition of memoirs of hadrian

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marguerite Yourcenar

Translated by

Grace Frick

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 13.9 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.44 kg.

ISBN

0374529264

ISBN13

9780374529260

Synopsis "memoirs of hadrian,and reflections on the composition of memoirs of hadrian"

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.

Marguerite Yourcenar

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Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) was a distinguished French writer, naturalized American, known for her mastery in historical novels, essays, and poetry. Her most famous work is Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), translated into Spanish by Julio Cortázar. Other notable novels include Opus nigrum (1968), Alexis or the Treatise of Vain Struggle (1929) and Coup de Grâce (1939). She also ventured into short narrative with titles like Fires (1936), Oriental Tales (1938) and As Water Flows (1982)

Yourcenar was the first woman to be elected a member of the French Academy in 1980. Her literary style is characterized by refined prose and a deep exploration of the human condition. In addition to her work as a novelist, she was an essayist, poet, and translator, cultivating a body of work marked by humanism and erudition.

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