by Marguerite Yourcenar · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481301854
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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).
The work takes the form of an extensive letter that the emperor Hadrian writes to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, already old and ill. In it he reviews his public and private life: his military campaigns, his love of poetry and music, his reflection on power and death, and his relationship with his lover Antinous, all from a deeply intimate perspective.
Work originally published in French in 1951, with Spanish translation by Julio Cortázar. It belongs to the Narrativas Históricas collection from Edhasa. Includes a prologue by Clara Janés.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and contemporary classics seeking a novel with philosophical depth and great literary quality.
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.
