by Marguerite Yourcenar · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420416502
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In 'Alexis or the Treatise of the Futile Combat', Marguerite Yourcenar, author of 'Memoirs of Hadrian', presents an innovative and controversial novel that explores love and sexuality. The work, acclaimed by critics, focuses on Alexis's long letter to his wife, where he dissects his painful internal conflict. Published in 1929, the novel addresses a taboo subject in a context of historical and social transformation, where Alexis seeks to end the deception and begin a new life. The novel explores the difficulty of living and the even greater difficulty of explaining one's own life.
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.
