by Marguerite Yourcenar · Círculo de Lectores, 1988, Barcelona. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422625070
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«Opus Nigrum» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (388 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Zeno, a physician, alchemist and philosopher from Bruges, in his quest for knowledge and truth. Through his journey and the characters around him, Yourcenar reconstructs sixteenth-century Europe, marked by religious and intellectual tensions and by the encounter between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Translation by Emma Calatayud and introduction by Rafael Conte. 1988 edition. The original work, L'Œuvre au noir, written in French, won the Prix Femina in 1968.
For readers of historical and philosophical fiction, interested in the Renaissance and in the work of one of the great French women writers of the twentieth century.
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.
