· Memoirs of Hadrian, a novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, the Belgian-born French writer, was first published in France in Originally written in French, it was published in English in It was an ambitious project many year in the making; Yourcenar first had the idea for it in the s, then worked on it, on and off, in the s. Summary. Memoirs of Hadrian is a historical novel in the form of a long letter written by the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his young friend and eventual successor, Marcus Aurelius. Alas, Hadrian is "growing old, and is about to die of a dropsical heart.". Online Library Memoirs Of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar Yourcenar is simply brilliant: the combination of her deep research into the life of Hadrian, with her credible (and very human) interpretation of his thoughts and ideas on statesmanship, art, justice, and philosophy, based on that research, is.
Memoirs of Hadrian. Marguerite Yourcenar. Macmillan, - Fiction - pages. 2 Reviews. Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous. * Marguerite Yourcenar's masterpiece, Memoirs of Hadrian offers a poetic meditation on death, wisdom, power, and the quest for self. Richly documented, the work takes the form of fictional autobiography. The narrator, a Roman emperor of the second century A.D., recounts his life, from childhood to old age, including his accession to imperial. by Marguerite Yourcenar ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 9, Inevitably analogies will be sought to that other evocation of the classic past, Thornton Wilder's The Ides of March. But Mlle. Yourcenar has attempted an even more difficult thing, she has actually used Hadrian's own writings and the writing of his contemporaries to recreate in the form of.
Memoirs Of Hadrian by Yourcenar, Marguerite. Topics North Collection digitallibraryindia; JaiGyan Language English. Memoirs Of Hadrian. Addeddate Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of. In Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar has given us the fully imagined voice of Publius Aelius Trianus Hadrianus, or Hadrian ( CE), Roman emperor from to For additional biographical information, see bltadwin.ru The epistolary technique allows Hadrian's "confession" and testament to range widely through time and space, but remain firmly anchored in the here-and-now of his final illness.
0コメント