by Marguerite Yourcenar · EL PAIS. Clásicos del siglo XX nº 2 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669642
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«Memorias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by El País in hardback (380 pages, in Spanish).
In these fictional memoirs, the emperor Hadrian, now elderly, writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius reviewing his life: military campaigns, passion for poetry and music, his philosophy, and his relationship with Antinous, while reflecting on power, love, and mortality.
It belongs to the Clásicos del siglo XX collection, no. 2, from El País. Translation by Julio Cortázar; original French from 1951, Mémoires d'Hadrien.
For readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century classical literature, with an interest in power and the human condition.
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.
