by Marguerite Yourcenar · tapa dura · ISBN 9788472224292
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«Memòries d'Adrià» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Ediciones Alfons el Magnànim in hardback, in Catalan.
The work is presented as a long letter that the emperor Hadrian, now elderly, addresses to his successor. In it he reviews his public and private life: military campaigns, love of poetry and philosophy, and the relationship with his young lover Antinous. It also includes the notebook where the author documents the writing process of the novel.
Catalan translation of «Mémoires d'Hadrien», originally published in French in 1951. This edition, dated 1983 and with 338 pages, belongs to the collection El Mirall i el Temps and includes «Quadern de notes de les Memòries d'Adrià».
For readers interested in historical narrative written with psychological depth and literary sensitivity, as well as in the figure of the emperor Hadrian and classical Rome.
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.
