Marguerite Yourcenar

Author : Josyane Savigneau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226735443

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Marguerite Yourcenar by Josyane Savigneau Pdf

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 : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226965295

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Two Lives and a Dream by Marguerite Yourcenar Pdf

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 : Joan E Howard
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826274045

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"We Met in Paris" by Joan E Howard Pdf

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
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1981-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374516666

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The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar Pdf

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 : University of Chicago Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226965284

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Fires by Marguerite Yourcenar Pdf

Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale."—Stephen Koch, New York Times Book Review

Author : Jeanine S. Alesch
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1883479568

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Marguerite Yourcenar by Jeanine S. Alesch Pdf

Author : Bérengère Deprez
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9052015635

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Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA by Bérengère Deprez Pdf

This is a very welcome contribution to the debate on the real effect of the United States on Yourcenar'slife and thought, a good read on a fascinating subject which critics have often treated dimissively. Future scholarship will be obliged to weigh Berengere Deprez's arguments and evidence seriously, and thank her for her clearheaded thoroughness. Prof. Brian Gill, University of Calgary, Canada --

Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374519971

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Oriental Tales by Marguerite Yourcenar Pdf

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
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374523756

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That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar Pdf

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
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226965309

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A Blue Tale and Other Stories by Marguerite Yourcenar Pdf

Three short stories by a Belgian writer (1903-1987), written in her youth. The title story is on Greek treasure hunters who kidnap a deaf-mute girl to lead them to a cave of sapphires and are punished for it, while An Evil Spell is on sorcery in an Italian village.

Author : Marguerite Yourcenar,Alberto Manguel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226965325

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Mishima by Marguerite Yourcenar,Alberto Manguel Pdf

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 : Keith Bradley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487548896

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Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian by Keith Bradley Pdf

Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires d’Hadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The work can be examined from the perspective of the issues raised by writing Roman imperial biography at large and the many ways in which Mémoires has a claim to historical authenticity. In Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian, Keith Bradley explains how Mémoires d’Hadrien came to be written, gives details of Yourcenar’s own biography, and describes some of the intricate historical problems that her novel’s portrait of Hadrian presents. He draws on Yourcenar’s correspondence, her interviews with journalists, and her literary corpus as a whole, emphasizing Yourcenar’s profound knowledge of the ancient evidence on which her life of Hadrian is based and exploiting a wide range of contemporary Yourcenarian criticism. The book pays special attention to the methods by which Yourcenar believed Hadrian’s life history to be recoverable, compares examples of modern life-writing, and contrasts the procedures of conventional Roman biographers. Revealing how and why Mémoires d’Hadrien is as it is, Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian illustrates how imaginative literary recreation is often little different from historical speculation.

Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X030219735

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Coup de Grace by Marguerite Yourcenar Pdf

English translation originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.

Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B4933987

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The Dark Brain of Piranesi by Marguerite Yourcenar Pdf

Marguerite Yourcenar is known in France as a brilliant essayist as well as a great novelist, but until now her essays have not been widely available to English-language readers. "The Dark Brain of Piranesi" gathers seven of her most important critical essays, essential to the understanding of the searching and remarkably informed spirit of this protean writer. The book begins with an essay on the "Historia Augusta", that chronicles the lives of the Caesars. Next, an essay whose wider subject is human intolerance cruelty in the sixteenth century but whose starting point is the violent Reformation epic "Les Tragiques". Yourcenar's evocation of the unstable life of the the château of Chenonceaux reminds us that we are all playthings of the conjugated powers of politics and money. A masterly account of Piranesi's great series of engraving analyzes the formal motivations of this extraordinary (and imaginary) architecture period. Finally, three great names of modern literature: Selma Lagerlöf, Nobel Prize epic storyteller; the enigmatic Greek poet of Alexandria, Constantin Cavafy; Thomas Mann, and the complex relations of the author to the old and learned traditions of the hermeticists and alchemists. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226965279

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A Coin in Nine Hands by Marguerite Yourcenar Pdf

During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people—including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude. "A Coin in Nine Hands has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history."—Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review "What lingers at the end of A Coin in Nine Hands is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him."—Anne Tyler, The New Republic "Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic."—Cynthia King, Houston Post "Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation."—Publisher's Weekly Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française.