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(0)Marguerite Yourcenar
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Both an exploration of character and a meditation on history, Marguerite Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its publication in France in 1951. Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, the work is as extraordinary for its psychological depth as for its accurate reconstruction of the second century of our era. In it, Yourcenar reimagines...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Strauss, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Coup de grâce
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grâce tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love for Conrad becomes an unbearable burden."--Goodreads
11) Plays
Author
Series
Publisher
Performing Arts Journal Publications
Pub. Date
©1984
Language
English
Description
Reinterpretations of classical myths and a fairy tale.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
©1984
Language
English
Description
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...
13) The abyss
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Description
A novel of 16th century Europe. A young man, destined for the Church, rejects his theological studies and takes up with the scientific studies of the times.
15) L'Œuvre au noir
Author
Series
Collection Soleil volume 248
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
Français
Description
By creating the character of Zénon, alchemist and doctor of the 16th century, Marguerite Yourcenar, the author of the Memoirs of Hadrian, does not only tell the tragic destiny of an extraordinary man. It's a whole era that lives again in its infinite richness, as well as in its acrid and brutal reality; a contrasting world where the Middle Ages and the Renaissance clash, and where modern times are already emerging, a world from which Zeno came, but...
19) How many years
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Marguerite Yourcenar, one of France's most celebrated authors, here continues the absorbing tale of her background and origins. The first volume of her autobiographical trilogy, Dear Departed, was devoted to her maternal forebears. The current book, originally published in 1977 under the title Archives du Nord and now making its first appearance in English, introduces us to her father's side of the family. Yourcenar takes us back in time, to relive...
20) Quoi? l'éternité
Author
Series
Labyrinthe du monde volume 3
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
Français