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Author | : Josyane Savigneau |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1993-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226735443 |
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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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Gay men |
ISBN | : 0374516316 |
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Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1994-11-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226965291 |
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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 | : Elizabeth Speller |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2004-10-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195176131 |
Download Following Hadrian Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the greatest - and most enigmatic - Roman emperors, Hadrian stabilized the imperial borders, established peace throughout the empire, patronized the arts, and built an architectural legacy that lasts to this day: the great villa at Tivoli, the domed wonder of the Pantheon, and the eponymous wall that stretches across Britain. Yet the story of his reign is also a tale of intrigue, domestic discord, and murder. In Following Hadrian, Elizabeth Speller illuminates the fascinating life of Hadrian, rule of the most powerful empire on earth at the peak of its glory. Speller displays a superb gift for narrative as she traces the intrigue of Hadrian's rise, making brilliant use of her sources and vividly depicting Hadrian's bouts of melancholy, his intellectual passions, his love for a beautiful boy (whose death sent him into a spiral), and the paradox of his general policies of peace and religious tolerance even as he conducted a bitter, three-year war with Judea. Most important, the author captures the emperor as both a builder and an inveterate traveler, guiding readers on a grand tour of the Roman Empire at the moment of its greatest extent and accomplishment.
Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1985-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374519064 |
Download Alexis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"It was with Alexis that, in 1929, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. Few literary debuts in this centry are quite as astonishing; for this profound analysis of a man's homosexuality was written by a young woman of twenty-four. The novel takes the form of a letter from the protagonist, Alexis, to his wife, Monique. His letter declares that he can no longer continue in the marriage, that he must obey the demands of his own sexuality, against which he has struggled in vain, to achieve a freedom without which he cannot live"--Back cover.
Author | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : French literature |
ISBN | : |
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The memoirs portray the Roman Emperor Hadrian on the the eve of his death and describe his reflections as he gazes out upon the city that seemed to him indestructible and that he now fears will fall. As with most of Yourcenar's work, the novel is a minutely researched reconstruction of actual events in the distant past through which she develops penetrating and fully credible portraits of the people she describes.