by Marguerite Yourcenar, Luísa Neto Jorge · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789726116318
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«Como a água que corre» is a volume of three novels by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Editorial Presença in 2000, with 188 pages in Portuguese.
The work brings together three novels: in «Anna, Soror...» it addresses love between siblings; in «Um Homem Obscuro» it follows Natanael, a man of limpid soul; and in «Uma Bela Manhã» little Lázaro lives among a company of English actors. It is a triptych showing a mature Yourcenar, master of a refined style.
Original French title: «Comme l'eau qui coule», published in 1982. Translation by Luísa Neto Jorge for this 2000 Portuguese edition.
For readers of classic fiction and short stories with an interest in twentieth-century French literature.
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.
