by Marguerite Yourcenar · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420427300
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«El denario del sueño» is a novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Editorial Alfaguara in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative is set in Rome under Mussolini, where an anti-fascist attack triggers encounters between several characters. A ten-lira coin passes from hand to hand and articulates stories tinged with intrigue and suspense, while the novel depicts an Italian society marked by politics, morality and destiny.
The novel, whose original title is 'Denier du rêve', appeared in 1934; this Spanish edition, translated by Emma Calatayud, is from 1994.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in 1930s Italy and the narrative of Marguerite Yourcenar.
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.
