by Marguerite Yourcenar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789725684696
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Memórias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Ulisseia in paperback (288 pages, in Portuguese).
The emperor Hadrian, old and ill, writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor, in which he reviews his life and his rule. The novel traces the emperor's career, his campaigns, his relationships and his reflections on power, philosophy, love and the human condition.
Work originally published in French as «Mémoires d'Hadrien» in 1951 and awarded the Prix Femina Vacaresco in 1952.
Novel aimed at readers of historical fiction, interested in classical Rome and in twentieth-century literature.
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.
