Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 408
ISBN: 9780374529260
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

She wrote not only novels, such as The Abyss (L'Oeuvre au noir) and The Memoirs of Hadrian (Les Mémoires d'Hadrien), but also short stories, such as Les Nouvelles Orientales. Margaret Yourcenar, The Memoirs of Hadrian, p. ORIGINAL TITLE: “Mèmoires d'Hadrien” PUBLISHER: Einaudi ISBN: 9788806174088. Hadrian notoriously had a romantic relationship with a Greek youth called Antinous, who mysteriously drowned in the Nile. This novel accosted me outright by its two stunning forms: the prose of the author and the stature of its character and/or the flesh-blood man. What struck me was that of his ten choices, only two of the authors were women (Lydia Davis and Marguerite Yourcenar) and Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian features a male protagonist. "MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN" by Marguerite Yourcenar. Memoirs of Hadrian · 8 February 2008. My dear Marc, Today I went to see my physician Hermogenes, who has just returned to the Villa from a rather long journey in Asia. Saddened by this loss, Hadrian founded the city of Antinopolis. Aelius Caesar is a major character in Marguerite Yourcenar's epic historical novel Mémoires d'Hadrien (Memoirs of Hadrian).