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Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) is now recognised as a writer of international stature. The success of "Memoires d'Hadrien" (1951) and her election to the Academie franiaise in 1980 have created a worldwide audience for her work across the genres - novel, short story, essay, memoir and play - and for her published interviews and correspondence. By subverting some of Yourcenar's own accounts of... Read more
Preface Introduction 1 Essays on the Visual Arts 2 Looking with Hadrien: Memories of Antinoüs 3 Piranesi and the Trace of Zénon 4 Still Lives: Un homme obscur and ‘Deux Noirs de Rem brandt’ Conclusion.
Biography
Nigel Saint
