by Marguerite Yourcenar · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435005128
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«Memorias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in hardback (276 pages, in Spanish).
In this epistolary novel, Emperor Hadrian writes to Marcus Aurelius, his successor, to review his life: wars, love of art and philosophy, friendship, loss, and the exercise of power. The action takes place in second-century Rome, between the ancient gods and Christianity.
This Spanish edition, translated by Julio Cortázar, belongs to the Narrativas Históricas collection from Edhasa; the French original, Mémoires d'Hadrien, dates from 1951.
For readers of historical fiction, biographical fiction, and twentieth-century 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.
