by Marguerite Yourcenar · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070227273
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«Denier du rêve» is a novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published by Gallimard in paperback (224 pages, in French).
The novel is set in Rome in 1933, under fascism, and follows several characters whose lives intersect around a coin, the «denier du rêve», which passes from hand to hand. A declining artist, a prostitute marked by broken dreams, and a conspirator preparing an attack on Mussolini embody different ways of confronting oppression and solitude, in a portrait of anti-fascist circles doomed to clandestinity and failure.
1982 edition in the L'Imaginaire collection, number 100; the novel was originally published in 1934.
For readers of French literature and classic twentieth-century fiction with a historical backdrop.
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.
