by Marguerite Yourcenar · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420426112
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Peregrina y extranjera is a posthumous collection of essays by the writer Marguerite Yourcenar, in which she addresses various topics related to culture from her unique perspective. The collected writings reflect an intellectual journey that spans from the 1930s to 1987. In them, Yourcenar explores the music of Mozart, her favorite painters such as Rembrandt and Poussin, and her admiration for authors such as Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Jorge Luis Borges. It also includes her reflections on ancient Greece and her speech upon entering the French Academy.
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.
