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.
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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1.我明白,善也像惡一樣有例行途徑,其短暫會延長,其外錶會內滲,其麵具終究會成為真性情。既然仇恨、愚昧、瘋狂都有持續效果,我不相信明智、公義、善心不會留下深遠影響。 2.君王錶現沒有自大、無禮和殘暴異常,人們就大錶驚奇,這正是人類坦承瞭最大的弱點。 3.我慶幸我...
評分舊博客一篇(2007-12-1 17:41:00 ) 書信體對應——或者對立於許多其他的寫作方式。 李卓吾說:“……《焚書》,則答知己書問,所言……中其痼疾, 則必欲殺我矣;故欲焚之,言當焚而棄之,不可留也。” 所以,捲五論曹操的時候,贊頌良文如醫之後, 說,“蓋知己甚難。”書信...
評分用最簡單的話說,這是一個關於星象和掌紋的故事。 兩韆年前的某個星夜,那位通曉占星術的祖父把睡夢中的哈德裏安搖醒,宣布:他命中注定要主宰帝國。火光映照著哈德裏安十一歲的厚厚掌心,那手相與天宇之上的星座綫條相契。那一晚,一隻手印證瞭全部的星宿。 40年以後,51歲的...
評分A famous book, but not good for me. Mostly a bit of this and that, here and there, love, war, laws, travels, mourning, old age. It lacks focus and depth. For me, the most interesting part is his meditation about death. It rings genuine feelings. But again...
評分因為羅芃老師的節譯本隻收入在《尤瑟納爾研究》一書中,沒有獨立的豆瓣頁麵,故藉地寫一點最近重讀羅譯哈德良的隨感。(五星好評給羅譯) 豆瓣上有時會看到一些評論,說羅譯接近知音體,沒有體現尤瑟納爾的高大上。其實,這裏可能是對尤瑟納爾有所誤解的。尤瑟納爾的文名很大,...
圖書標籤: 曆史 法國文學 羅馬 Yourcenar 尤瑟納爾 外國文學 瑪格麗特·尤瑟納爾 英譯本
“驚為天人”
評分看完瞭!力薦! 剛看到第二章,真好看啊!“I hoped to discover the hinge where our wil meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining." 這不就是莊子麼?
評分中文譯文太搞笑瞭
評分這大約就是好的曆史小說(類型文學)與嚴肅文學的區彆。不是厚此薄彼的意思。前者你讀到的是好故事,好人物,好情感。後者,除此以外,或者缺乏這些元素,但是你讀到瞭你自己。它寫的不是你,但你讀到的是你自己
評分這大約就是好的曆史小說(類型文學)與嚴肅文學的區彆。不是厚此薄彼的意思。前者你讀到的是好故事,好人物,好情感。後者,除此以外,或者缺乏這些元素,但是你讀到瞭你自己。它寫的不是你,但你讀到的是你自己
Memoirs of Hadrian 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載