She can make us share passion - for beauty, bodies, ideas, even power - and consider it closely at the same time. every page is informed by her profound scholarship' If you enjoyed Memoirs of Hadrian, you might like Robert Graves's I, Claudius, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. When Memoires d'Hadrien was first published in 1951, it was an immediate success and met with great critical acclaim. 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. 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 Academie fran aise. A work of superbly detailed research and sustained empathy, Memoirs of Hadrian captures the living spirit of the Emperor and of Ancient Rome. Ses couts sont représentatifs du mouvement littéraire du Nouveau Roman Hemoires dHadrian est un taxle à la premièle personne consistant on un récit rétrospectifs de la vie de lempereur romain Hadrian Ce texte quil adreme à son successeur et petit-fils adoptif Marc Aurile, est I incipit de lourage qui se présente sous la forme dune lettre. 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. L’uvre se prsente sous la forme d’une longue lettre crite au soir de sa vie par Hadrien Marc Aurle, son petit fils-fils adoptif et possible successeur. ![]() The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. Soi-même comme un autre: dans les Mémoires d’Hadrien, où «je» protéiforme, complexe, est sans cesse mis à distance par l’observation, le travail sur soi ou le projet politique. En effet, Mmoires d’Hadrien constitue son premier grand succs public mais aussi critique Marguerite Yourcenar a alors quarante-huit ans. In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. 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.
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