by Marguerite Yourcenar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408026754
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Memorias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (366 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is an extensive letter from the elderly Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius, his adopted grandson. The emperor reviews his military campaigns, his love of poetry and music, his philosophical reflections, and his passion for Antinous, in a world where the Roman gods are fading and Christianity has not yet been established.
Spanish translation of Mémoires d'Hadrien, originally published in French in 1951. Belongs to the Booket historical fiction collection.
For readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century classics who appreciate an intimate and philosophical look at the Roman Empire.
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.
