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.
应该打〇星。如果文字拙劣尚可算作译者之“过”,抄袭就是译者之“罪”了(详见http://book.douban.com/review/3216897/)陈筱卿这本书,是对原作的谋杀,对读者则涉嫌诈骗(若抄袭成立的话)。我多年前将他的书跟英译逐段对比,越看越生气,写到这里仍然不由得心头火起。这样...
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評分这是现时北京市面上能够见到的《哈德良回忆录》唯一书面的读本,但是读完第一段便不知如何再继续下去。作为尤瑟纳尔最重要的一部恢弘史诗著作,这个译本叙事粗陋寡淡不说,尤瑟纳尔语言中特有的古典与优雅韵味也尽失,更别提获得其他什么阅读体验了。 以上是douban上某位的评...
評分旧博客一篇(2007-12-1 17:41:00 ) 书信体对应——或者对立于许多其他的写作方式。 李卓吾说:“……《焚书》,则答知己书问,所言……中其痼疾, 则必欲杀我矣;故欲焚之,言当焚而弃之,不可留也。” 所以,卷五论曹操的时候,赞颂良文如医之后, 说,“盖知己甚难。”书信...
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神馬時候可以看法語本啊啊啊
评分讀完一遍捨不得丟開,還想反復讀,不停的讀。我一嚮崇尚簡單的語言,這本書讓我領略另一種英文之美,由復雜句和生僻詞精準砌齣的迷宮般文字可以錶達這樣深邃清晰的智慧!看似曆史小說,作者下的研究工夫不亞於學術著作,說是翻譯,文字之令人嘆服遠勝很多英文原著。找到一本可以讀上很多年的書多麼幸福。
评分神馬時候可以看法語本啊啊啊
评分“驚為天人”
评分夢想撫觸大理石般文字
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