by Marguerite Yourcenar · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422618966
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«Memorias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by FisicalBook in hardback (243 pages, in Spanish).
Adrian, now elderly, writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius reviewing his life: his rise to power, military campaigns, travels, poetry, music and philosophy. The novel explores power, love and death through the intimate gaze of an emperor seeking to understand himself.
Translation by Julio Cortázar and introduction by Joaquín Marco; unabridged edition from the Narradores del Mundo collection. Original title: Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951).
A classic of historical fiction for readers of French literature, ancient Rome and epistolary fiction.
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.
