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Author | : Josyane Savigneau |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1993-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226735443 |
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 |
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 |
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 | : 242 |
Release | : 1993-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0374523754 |
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 | : 168 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Gay men |
ISBN | : 0374516316 |
Author | : Joan E Howard |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0826274048 |
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 |
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 | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1994-11-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226965291 |
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 | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1994-11-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0226965287 |
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 | : Marguerite Yourcenar |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1995-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226965307 |
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.