by Marguerite Yourcenar · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420427294
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«El tiro de gracia» is the short novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Editorial Alfaguara in paperback (138 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in a Baltic mansion, where two men and a woman live together during the Russian Civil War. Yourcenar builds a brief narrative about the complexities of human relationships and the moral dilemmas unleashed by violence.
The novel was translated by Emma Calatayud from the French «Le Coup de grâce» and belongs to the Alfaguara/Bolsillo collection (no. 62).
For readers of historical fiction and French literature, with an interest in stories set in wartime and personal tensions.
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.
