by Marguerite Yourcenar · Dom Quixote · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722000031
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«A Obra ao Negro» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Dom Quixote in paperback (276 pages, in Brazilian Portuguese).
The novel follows Zenon, a 16th-century physician, alchemist and philosopher, on his journey through a Europe leaving the Middle Ages and entering the Renaissance. Through his investigations and contradictions, it raises the conflict between intellectual freedom and religious dogmatism, with great philosophical depth.
The edition is from 1998; the cover bears the original subtitle: «Um romance histórico. Um grande clássico. Uma obra-prima.»
For readers of historical novels and classics, with an interest in Renaissance thought and the conflict between faith and science.
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
