The first woman to be elected to The French Academy, the multi talented personality of Marguerite Yourcenar was a novelist, essayist, playwright, short story writer, poet and translator. She was an artist at reconstructing historical eras in the form of her novels. Her novels, dealing with modern issues set in historical eras won her immense fame as a writer.
The inheritance Yourcenar received after the death of her father, allowed her to devote herself to traveling and literary pursuits and love affairs on the Paris artistic scene. She joined a bohemian crowd of artists, moving between Paris, Lausanne, Athens, Istanbul, Brussels and the Greek islands, which inspired her travel writing "Nouvelles Orientales" and "Feux" based on Greek mythology.
Yourcenar was among the first female writers to live an openly lesbian lifestyle, and she moved to the USA in 1939 to live with her partner Grace Frick. The couple were to remain together until Frick’s death in 1979. She taught French History and History of Art, and continued to write: her novel "Mémoires d’Hadrien" was published in 1951 and enjoyed success with both the critics and the public worldwide.
She was an inveterate traveller and remained active right up to her death in 1987. She was a militant vegetarian and defender of the rights of animals and inspired Brigitte Bardot to set up her animal sanctuary.
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 1951. 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 the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.
又把尤瑟纳尔的《哈德良回忆录》法文版重读了一遍。这本八万字的小说是罗马皇帝哈德良的临终自述,全书都是第一人称叙述,讲述了哈德良自己一生的故事和对生命,世界,宇宙的感悟和认识。此次重读使我更加确定此书是一本伟大的小说,尤瑟纳尔是一个伟大的作家。此书最重要的价...
评分说起尤瑟纳尔 在一次偶然的情况下,一个书店里,这是几年前的事情了,但我愿意记起它。这个书店我不经常去,离住的地方较远。书店里有不少喜欢的书,记忆最深的是翻看尤瑟纳尔的书,东方出版社的一套书都在那里,当时读着比较费力,随意看看。并没有觉出妙来。 没...
评分A famous book, but not good for me. Mostly a bit of this and that, here and there, love, war, laws, travels, mourning, old age. It lacks focus and depth. For me, the most interesting part is his meditation about death. It rings genuine feelings. But again...
评分当知道尤瑟纳尔的文集有了全套中文译本的时候,一瞬间记忆涌现,我看的第一本她的书,就是《哈德良回忆录》。 还是高一的时候,暑假里翘掉辅导课,泡在图书馆看书。列了一个长长的书单,一本本地找,当发现又这本《哈德良回忆录》的时候,激动得无以复加。 那时候迷上了古罗马...
评分说起尤瑟纳尔 在一次偶然的情况下,一个书店里,这是几年前的事情了,但我愿意记起它。这个书店我不经常去,离住的地方较远。书店里有不少喜欢的书,记忆最深的是翻看尤瑟纳尔的书,东方出版社的一套书都在那里,当时读着比较费力,随意看看。并没有觉出妙来。 没...
一副徐徐展开的画卷。所见之处是极致的美。你仿佛触摸到哈德裏安的思想,借由他的灵魂去看,去听,去感受......妙不可言。
评分去年读了台译本后来补了英文,行云流水的文字有一种极致的古典美。未来几年的愿望是学好法语去读法语版,不能站在法语的语境去读Yourcenar太可惜啦;想去荒山岛,想在荒山岛用一个冬天读Youcenar | 补充:瞄了一眼法文版,感觉英翻比法文原版确实要稍逊一些。。
评分很喜欢。看得很慢,不是一下子就想读完知道答案的那种,每天都会想看一点,一段时间没看都会记挂着。不仅达到了罗马皇帝人生的深度,也有一个时代。题外话,读者和作者的连接从第一个定tone的句子就开始了,这就是很主观的甄别,这本刚好是喜欢的。
评分很建议一读
评分很喜欢。看得很慢,不是一下子就想读完知道答案的那种,每天都会想看一点,一段时间没看都会记挂着。不仅达到了罗马皇帝人生的深度,也有一个时代。题外话,读者和作者的连接从第一个定tone的句子就开始了,这就是很主观的甄别,这本刚好是喜欢的。
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