The first woman to be elected to The French Academy, the multi talented personality of Marguerite Yourcenar was a novelist, essayist, playwright, short story writer, poet and translator. She was an artist at reconstructing historical eras in the form of her novels. Her novels, dealing with modern issues set in historical eras won her immense fame as a writer.
The inheritance Yourcenar received after the death of her father, allowed her to devote herself to traveling and literary pursuits and love affairs on the Paris artistic scene. She joined a bohemian crowd of artists, moving between Paris, Lausanne, Athens, Istanbul, Brussels and the Greek islands, which inspired her travel writing "Nouvelles Orientales" and "Feux" based on Greek mythology.
Yourcenar was among the first female writers to live an openly lesbian lifestyle, and she moved to the USA in 1939 to live with her partner Grace Frick. The couple were to remain together until Frick’s death in 1979. She taught French History and History of Art, and continued to write: her novel "Mémoires d’Hadrien" was published in 1951 and enjoyed success with both the critics and the public worldwide.
She was an inveterate traveller and remained active right up to her death in 1987. She was a militant vegetarian and defender of the rights of animals and inspired Brigitte Bardot to set up her animal sanctuary.
发表于2024-12-22
Memoirs of Hadrian 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
公元138年,不堪病痛折磨的罗马皇帝哈德良几次自杀未遂,只得认命,皇帝掌握大小民族的兴衰,偏左右不了自家生死。于是耐下性子,在等待解脱的最后时日写下一部回忆录,后于当年十月驾崩。 公元1899年,三位牛津学者在埃及最古老的城市法尤姆发掘出几百卷残破的古代纸草文书,...
评分又把尤瑟纳尔的《哈德良回忆录》法文版重读了一遍。这本八万字的小说是罗马皇帝哈德良的临终自述,全书都是第一人称叙述,讲述了哈德良自己一生的故事和对生命,世界,宇宙的感悟和认识。此次重读使我更加确定此书是一本伟大的小说,尤瑟纳尔是一个伟大的作家。此书最重要的价...
评分Memoirs of Hadrian在於哈德良安是實在的人,他在羅馬帝國歷史上舉足輕重,而這個自傳是虛構的,據說他本人確實寫過自傳,可是已遺失了。於是這個傳記是歷史和虛幻的交匯點,更甚是,書中對於哈德良的事跡與他的沉思也互相交替,她要藉單獨一個偉人的思想重新建構一個世界。與...
评分1.我明白,善也像恶一样有例行途径,其短暂会延长,其外表会内渗,其面具终究会成为真性情。既然仇恨、愚昧、疯狂都有持续效果,我不相信明智、公义、善心不会留下深远影响。 2.君王表现没有自大、无礼和残暴异常,人们就大表惊奇,这正是人类坦承了最大的弱点。 3.我庆幸我...
评分当知道尤瑟纳尔的文集有了全套中文译本的时候,一瞬间记忆涌现,我看的第一本她的书,就是《哈德良回忆录》。 还是高一的时候,暑假里翘掉辅导课,泡在图书馆看书。列了一个长长的书单,一本本地找,当发现又这本《哈德良回忆录》的时候,激动得无以复加。 那时候迷上了古罗马...
图书标签: 历史 法国文学 罗马 Yourcenar 尤瑟纳尔 外国文学 玛格丽特·尤瑟纳尔 英译本
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.
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评分Mutterings from half wakened dreams. 'I was reaching the age when each beauteous place recalls another, fairer still, when each delight is weighted with the memory of past joys. I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.' '… man existing alone and yet closely bound with all being.'
评分这大约就是好的历史小说(类型文学)与严肃文学的区别。不是厚此薄彼的意思。前者你读到的是好故事,好人物,好情感。后者,除此以外,或者缺乏这些元素,但是你读到了你自己。它写的不是你,但你读到的是你自己
评分这大约就是好的历史小说(类型文学)与严肃文学的区别。不是厚此薄彼的意思。前者你读到的是好故事,好人物,好情感。后者,除此以外,或者缺乏这些元素,但是你读到了你自己。它写的不是你,但你读到的是你自己
Memoirs of Hadrian 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书