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Yourcenar, Marguerite was born on June 8, 1903 in Brussels, Belgium. Daughter of Michel and Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne.
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(The first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise p...)
The first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise presents a literary self-portrait that uses the same methods she employed to create penetrating credible characters in her novels and plays
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( During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira c...)
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 lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude. "A Coin in Nine Hands has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history."-Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review "What lingers at the end of A Coin in Nine Hands is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him."-Anne Tyler, The New Republic "Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic."-Cynthia King, Houston Post "Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation."-Publisher's Weekly Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française.
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( This posthumously published collection of essays takes ...)
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.
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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.
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( Seven of Yourcenar's most important critical essays, on...)
Seven of Yourcenar's most important critical essays, on subjects ranging from the Historia Augusta to Piranesi's engravings. Essential to the understanding of the searching and remarkably informed spirit of this protean writer.
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( Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based ...)
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 Consists of 9 monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Interspersed are highly personal notations, reflecting a time of profound innner crisis in the author's life.
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( It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar ...)
It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love. "The rich, many colored subtlety of her great novels -- Memoirs of Dadrian; The Abyss; Alexis; Coup de Grace; and others -- is reminiscent of their intricate tapestries, while her sublime mystical appreciation of Nature and its beauty evokes the golden age of landscape painting in the Low Countries." - The Paris Review
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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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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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Yourcenar, Marguerite was born on June 8, 1903 in Brussels, Belgium. Daughter of Michel and Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne.
Educated privately Doctor of Letters, Smith College, 1961; Doctor of Letters, Bowdoin College, 1968.
Lecturer universities, United States and Europe, 1940-1987. Member Academy de Belgique, 1970.
( This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko'...)
( This posthumously published collection of essays takes ...)
(The first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise p...)
( During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira c...)
( This book of three novellas was first published in Pari...)
( Seven of Yourcenar's most important critical essays, on...)
( Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our i...)
( It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar ...)
( Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based ...)
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1st woman member Académie Française (1980). Member American Academy Arts and Letters. Member civil rights and conservation societies.
