by Marguerite Yourcenar · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420422169
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«Archivos del Norte» is the second part of the trilogy «El laberinto del mundo» by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Alfaguara in paperback.
The author reconstructs her family's memory through documentary research and personal recreation that spans eras and events up to nineteenth-century Lille. The narrative's core is the figure of the father, a nonconformist man, and his influence on Yourcenar's childhood in French Flanders between 1902 and 1913.
Second installment of the trilogy «El laberinto del mundo», preceded by «Recordatorios» and concluded by «¿Qué? La Eternidad». Spanish edition of 1992, translated by Emma Calatayud, 376 pages.
For readers of memoirs and biographies interested in family history, genealogy, and French Flanders in the early twentieth century.
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.
