by Marguerite Yourcenar · Publicações Dom Quixote · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722016537
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«Contos Orientais» is Marguerite Yourcenar's collection of short stories, published by Publicações Dom Quixote in paperback (145 pages, in Portuguese).
Stories inspired by the Eastern imaginary, with dreamlike atmospheres and elements ranging from myth and legend to the supernatural. A painter haunted by his images, a betrayed hero, a mother who keeps caring for her son after death, and an unhappy goddess embody conflicts around love, betrayal, art, and immortality.
«Contos Orientais» corresponds to the fourth edition in Portuguese.
For readers of short stories and symbolic narrative, and for those who want to discover Marguerite Yourcenar beyond her novels.
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.
