by Marguerite Yourcenar · Edhasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435003629
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«Memorias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Edhasa in paperback (276 pages, in Spanish).
In the form of a letter that Emperor Hadrian writes to Marcus Aurelius, it reviews his life and rule: the wars, the travels, his loves and losses, and the responsibility of sustaining an empire. Yourcenar combines historical portraiture with intimate reflection on power, solitude, mortality, and the search for wisdom.
Translation by Julio Cortázar. The original text, «Mémoires d'Hadrien», was published in French and won the Prix Femina Vacaresco in 1952.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century French literary 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.
