Marguerite Yourcenar - Böcker

#Prix Femina 1968 #På plats 26 i Le Mondes Topp 100-lista över 1900-talets bästa romaner. »Utsökt välkomponerad.« | David Zimmerman, Ny tid Zenon Ligre är alkemist, fysiker, filosof, präst och läkare. I sina skrifter reflekterar han över ett intol...

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Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern Classics. In her magn...

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"Nyheten om Nathanaels död på en liten frisisk ö väckte föga uppmärksamhet i ¿Amsterdam" - så lyder den första meningen i En okänd man - en roman som i Margue¿rite Yourcenars litterära universum spelar en nyckelroll. Boken kan placeras p...

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när yukio mishima den 24 november 1970 med stor omsorg förberedde sin död var han 45 år gammal och världsberömd författare. Det var ett självmord som skulle följa ritens stränga regler - och genom vilket Mishima skulle nå den metafysiska tomhet so...

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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 lo...

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Preface Phaedra, or Despair Achilles, or the Lie Patroclus, or Destiny Antigone, or the Choice Lena, or the Secret Mary Magdalene, or Salvation Phaedo, or the Dance Clytemnestra, or Crime Sappho, or Suicide

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Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, An Obscure Man is the story of Nathanael--innocent, open to experience--born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In A Lovely Morning, Nathanael's young son joins a touring company of Jacobean actors. Anna, soror . ...

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Published to great acclaim in France in 1993, this collection is not only a delight for Marguerite Yourcenar fans but a welcome port of entry for any reader not yet familiar with the author's lengthier, more demanding works. The sole published wor...

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On November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. In this text, Marguerite Yourcenar unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his writings and h...

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Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, "Coup de Grace 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...

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Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel "The Abyss." Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.

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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, ref...

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Written in the form of a letter from the protagonist, Alexis, to Monique, his wife, this novel reflects on the incompatibility of art and bourgeois life as the hero explains why he must leave the marriage to serve the demands of art and pleasure.

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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 los...

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These tales draw inspiration from the East yet follow no established tradition as their language, rich in images, calls up other, secret meanings, in stories of a painter bewitched by images, a hero betrayed, and of the unhappiness of the goddess ...

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This book of three novellas was first published in Paris in 1982, where it was hailed as the finest book of novellas since Flaubert's Trois Contes.

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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 spiri...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best effor...

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La collection Connatre une uvre vous offre la possibilit de tout savoir des Mmoires de Marguerite Yourcenar grce une fiche de lecture aussi complte que dtaille. La rdaction, claire et accessible, a t confie un spcialiste universitaire. Cette fiche...

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Dcryptez les Mmoires d'Hadrien avec l'analyse de Paideia ducation ! Que faut-il retenir de ce roman historique de Marguerite Yourcenar ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir de ce chef-d'uvre de la littrature franaise dans une analyse de rfrenc...

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La collection Connatre une uvre vous offre la possibilit de tout savoir de L'uvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar, grce une fiche de lecture aussi complte que dtaille. La rdaction, claire et accessible, a t confie un spcialiste universitaire. Cett...

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Venez dcouvrir les Mmoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar grce une analyse littraire de rfrence ! crite par un spcialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommande par de nombreux enseignants. Cet ouvrage contient la biographie de l'...

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Venez dcouvrir L'Oeuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar grce une analyse littraire de rfrence ! crite par un spcialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommande par de nombreux enseignants. Cet ouvrage contient la biographie de l'criva...

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Ein leidenschaftlicher Mann Die Lebensgeschichte des römischen Kaisers Hadrian. In seiner Villa in Tibur schreibt der sechzigjährige Kaiser Hadrian an seinen Adoptivenkel, den späteren Herrscher Marc Aurel. Was er dem siebzehnjährigen Jüngling mit...

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Der Alchimist, Arzt und Philosoph Zenon, der im 16. Jahrhundert lebt und wirkt, trägt die Züge der bedeutendsten Gelehrten und Künstler seiner Zeit: Erasmus von Rotterdam, Leonardo da Vinci und Paracelsus. Er sprengt die Grenzen sei...

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Dieses Buch über das berühmteste der Loireschlösser ist ein Juwel, ein Gemälde voll funkelnder Lichter und flackernder Düsternis, menschlicher Tugend und Niedertracht, ein historischer Roman, dessen Menschen uns wie Zeitgenossen vor Augen stehen.

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#Prix Femina 1968 #På plats 26 i Le Mondes Topp 100-lista över 1900-talets bästa romaner. »Utsökt välkomponerad.« | David Zimmerman, Ny tid Zenon Ligre är alkemist, fysiker, filosof, präst och läkare. I sina skrifter reflekterar han över ett intol...

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Marguerite Yourcenars efterord till Vishetens natt . Om Vishetens natt : Zenon Ligre är alkemist, fysiker, filosof, präst och läkare. I sina skrifter reflekterar han över ett intolerant samhälle, sönderslitet av inbördes- och religionskrig, där de...

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