by Marguerite Yourcenar · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498152494
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«Opus Nigrum» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by FisicalBook in paperback (350 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the sixteenth century, it narrates the life of Zénon, a physician, philosopher, scientist and alchemist born in Bruges. His quest for knowledge and critical attitude move him between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, in an era of contrasts where reason and faith clash.
Work originally published in French in 1968 as «L'Œuvre au noir», winner of the Prix Femina. This volume belongs to the Historical Novel collection from El País (No. 45).
For readers of historical fiction and European classics interested in Renaissance humanism, philosophy and alchemy.
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.
