by Marguerite Yourcenar · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422686903
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«Memorias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (376 pages, in Spanish).
The emperor Hadrian, now elderly, writes to his successor Marcus Aurelius memoirs in which he reviews his youth, his military campaigns, his love of poetry and music, and his passion for Antinous. Yourcenar combines historical rigour with a reflection on power, death and the meaning of history.
Translated from French, its original title is «Mémoires d'Hadrien», originally published in 1951. Collection «Biblioteca Universal - Maestros Modernos Europeos», directed by Mario Vargas Llosa.
For readers of historical fiction and fictional biography set in Antiquity, as well as twentieth-century European classics.
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.
