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Memoirs of Hadrian

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Informationen zum Autor Marguerite Yourcenar Klappentext 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 magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and music, and the philosophy that informed his powerful and far-flung rule. A work of superbly detailed research and sustained empathy, Memoirs of Hadrian captures the living spirit of the Emperor and of Ancient Rome. Marguerite de Crayencour (1903-88), who went by the inexact anagrammatic pen name 'Marguarite Yourcenar', was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, the first woman to be elected to the Académie française . Her first novel Alexis was published in 1929; in 1939 she was invited to America by her lover Grace Frick, where she lectured in comparative literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. When Mémoires d'Hadrien was first published in 1951, it was an immediate success and met with great critical acclaim. If you enjoyed Memoirs of Hadrian , you might like Robert Graves's I, Claudius , also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'A timeless masterpiece ... every page is informed by her profound scholarship' Paul Bailey, author of Gabriel's Lament 'Yourcenar conjures worlds. She can make us share passion - for beauty, bodies, ideas, even power - and consider it closely at the same time. She is that most extraordinary thing: a sensual thinker' Independent on Sunday Zusammenfassung The Emperor Hadrian writes a valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and music, and the philosophy that informed his powerful and far-flung rule. This work recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world....

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Authors Paul Bailey, Grace Frick, Yourcenar, Marguerite Yourcenar
Assisted by Paul Bailey (Introduction), Grace Frick (Translation), Frick Grace (Translation)
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 07.12.2000
 
EAN 9780141184968
ISBN 978-0-14-118496-8
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
Series Penguin Modern Classics
Penguin Modern Classics
Penguin Classics
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Historical / Ancient, Ancient Rome, Classic fiction, Biographical fiction, 2nd century, c 100 to c 199

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