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Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2005-05-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374529264 |
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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.
Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1993-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0374523754 |
Download That Mighty Sculptor, Time Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the erosion of a statue and the resulting production of a new, sublime work of art.
Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1994-11-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226965291 |
Download Two Lives and a Dream Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, "An Obscure Man" is the story of Nathanaël—innocent, open to experience—born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In "A Lovely Morning," Nathanaël's young son joins a touring company of Jacobean actors. "Anna, soror . . . ," the final tale, is an account of illicit passion in the baroque world of Naples. "An Obscure Man swarms with life. This intricately researched, imaginative, beautifully written tale of a young man's brief life in the mid-17th century is entirely engrossing."—Leona Weiss, San Francisco Chronicle "In these three stories, [Yourcenar] succeeds in making the essences of these past lives a part of the reader's future through the sheer intensity of their portrayal."—Margaret Ezell, Houston Chronicle
Author | : Josyane Savigneau |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1993-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226735443 |
Download Marguerite Yourcenar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the most respected writers in the French language and best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Yourcenar received countless literary honors and became the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise. An uncompromising and intimate portrait. 50 halftones.
Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1981-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374516669 |
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The story of the fate of two cousins in sixteenth century northern France. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and a poet. The elder, twenty-two-year-old Zeno, has left the seminary to make himself an alchemist-philosopher.
Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1986-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374519978 |
Download Oriental Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sadness of Cornelius Berg, and a Postscript by the Author. "From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, Oriental Tales addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling."--Kirkus Reviews.
Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Gay men |
ISBN | : 0374516316 |
Download Coup de Grace Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Joan E Howard |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0826274048 |
Download "We Met in Paris" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented. It contains a great deal of new information that will disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar and may even shock some of her scholars and fans.
Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2001-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226965321 |
Download Mishima Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, and his carefully premeditated death.
Author | : Anthony R Birley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135952264 |
Download Hadrian Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire. The emperor Hadrian, a strange and baffling figure to his contemporaries, had a many-sided personality. Insatiably ambitious, and a passionate Philhellene, he promoted the 'Greek Renaissance' extravagantly. But his attempt to Hellenize the Jews, including the outlawing of circumcision, had disastrous consequences, and his 'Greek' love of the beautiful Bithynian boy Antinous ended in tragedy. No comprehensive account of Hadrian's life and reign has been attempted for over seventy years. In Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Anthony Birley brings together the new evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up-to-date and in-depth examination of the work of other scholars on aspects of Hadrian's reign and policies such as the Jewish war, the coinage, Hadrian's building programme in Rome, Athens and Tivoli, and his relationship with his favourite, Antinous, to provide a thorough and fascinating account of the private and public life of a man who, though hated when he died, left an indelible mark on the Roman Empire.