Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987)
Autor/a de Memorias de Adriano
Sobre l'autor
A French novelist, playwright, and essayist born in Belgium, Marguerite Yourcenar was a resident of the United States for many years, living in isolation on a small island off the coast of Maine. Educated at home by wealthy and cultured parents, she had a strong humanistic background, translating mostra'n més the ancient Greek poet Pindar and the poems of the modern Greek Constantine Cavafy. She has translated American Negro spirituals and works of Virginia Woolf (see Vol. 1) and Henry James (see Vol. 1). Her novels include Alexis (1929) and Coup de Grace (1939). A collection of poems, Fires, was published in 1936. Yourcenar is particularly known for Hadrian's Memoirs (1951), a philosophical meditation in the form of a fictional autobiography of the second-century Roman emperor. In Germaine Bree's judgment, "With great erudition and great psychological insight, Marguerite Yourcenar constructed a body of work that is a meditation on the destiny of mankind." In 1981, she became the first woman ever elected to the French Academy. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Marguerite Yourcenar
I trentatré nomi di Dio. Tentativo di un diario senza data e senza pronome personale. Testo francese a fronte (1988) 12 exemplars
Théâtre, tome 2 : Electre ou la chute des masques - Le Mystère d'Alceste - Qui n'a pas… (1932) — Autor — 7 exemplars
Discours De Réception De Madame Marguerite Yourcenar a L'académie Française et Réponse… (1981) — Autor — 6 exemplars
Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate - El denario del sueño - El tiro de gracia / Alexis or The Treaty of Vain… (2018) 4 exemplars
En 1939, l'Amérique commence à Bordeaux: Lettres à Emmanuel Boudot-Lamotte (1938-1980) (2016) 2 exemplars
Une volonté sans fléchissement, correspondance 1957-1960 / D'Hadrien à Zénon tome 2 (2007) 2 exemplars
Hadrianus emlékezései 1 exemplars
Osmeh Kraljevica Marka 1 exemplars
Emléklapok 1 exemplars
/1!: Romanzi e racconti 1 exemplars
Los ojos azules pelo negro 1 exemplars
Ο οβολός του ονείρου 1 exemplars
Alexis o El tractat del combat inútil 1 exemplars
El tiempo, gran escultor 1983 1 exemplars
Notas à margem do tempo 1 exemplars
Maleficio (Flash Relatos) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplars
Andalucía o el jardín de las Hespérides 1 exemplars
La nouvelle Eurydice 1 exemplars
Verken uw gevangenis - over Marguerite Yourcenar 1 exemplars
Izabrani ogledi 1 exemplars
Suite d'estampes pour Kou-Kou-Haï 1 exemplars
Un amore oscuro (in Come l'acqua che scorre) 1 exemplars
A Benefício de Inventário Livro 1 1 exemplars
Yourcenar, Marguerite Archive 1 exemplars
Oeuvres Romanesques de Marguerite Yourcenar 1 exemplars
El Alquimista 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Yourcenar, Marguerite
- Nom oficial
- de Crayencour, Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck
- Data de naixement
- 1903-06-08
- Data de defunció
- 1987-12-17
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Somesville, Maine, USA
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- France
- Lloc de naixement
- Brussels, Belgium
- Lloc de defunció
- Bangor, Maine, USA
- Causa de la mort
- Naturelle (Vieillesse)
- Llocs de residència
- Brussels, Belgium (birth)
Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA
Northeast Harbor, Maine, USA (death)
Hartford, Connecticut, USA - Educació
- Lycée de Nice (Baccalauréat)
Education paternelle et précepteurs - Professions
- novelist
essayist
poet
short story writer
playwright - Relacions
- Frick, Grace (lover)
- Organitzacions
- Académie française (1980)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1982)
Erasmus Prize (1983) - Premis i honors
- Grand Prix de Littérature de l'Académie française (1977)
- Biografia breu
- Marguerite Yourcenar nacque a Bruxelles nel 1903 e morì negli Stati Uniti nel 1987. Cresciuta nel nord della Francia e a Parigi, trascorse poi la maggior parte della sua vita all’estero, in Italia, Svizzera, Grecia e Stati Uniti. Eletta all’Académie Française nel 1981 (prima e unica donna), è stata autrice di raccolte di versi, poemi in prosa, racconti, lavori teatrali, saggi, traduzioni.
Membres
Converses
Group Read, June 2017: Memoirs of Hadrian a 1001 Books to read before you die (juny 2017)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Europe (1)
le donne raccontano (10)
1960s (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 99
- També de
- 10
- Membres
- 12,554
- Popularitat
- #1,864
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 244
- ISBN
- 781
- Llengües
- 34
- Preferit
- 57