by Marguerite Yourcenar · Salvat Editores, S. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434590434
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«Memorias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Salvat Editores in hardback (235 pages, in Spanish).
In the novel, the emperor Hadrian, now elderly, writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, his adopted grandson and future successor, to review his life. He recalls his military campaigns, his love of poetry and music, his philosophical reflections, and the deep bond with his young lover Antinous, while meditating on power, death, and the passage of time.
The work was originally published in French in 1951, and this Spanish edition, translated by Julio Cortázar, appeared in 1994 within Salvat's Historical Novel collection.
For readers of historical fiction and classic fiction, with an interest in the Roman Empire and in a narrative of a philosophical and introspective tone.
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.
