by Marguerite Yourcenar · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420427072
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«Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate» is the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Editorial Alfaguara in paperback (165 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is presented as an extensive letter that Alexis writes to his wife to explain his decision to change his life. In it he reviews his marriage, the effort to hide his sexual orientation, and the weariness of a combat he considers futile, in a society that was only beginning to question those conventions.
The translation is by Emma Calatayud; the original French title is «Alexis ou le traité du vain combat»; it belongs to the Alfaguara Bolsillo collection (no. 20).
It will interest readers of classic fiction and those who appreciate works that address identity and sexuality.
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.
