by Marguerite Yourcenar · Alfaguara. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420427188
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«Cuentos orientales» is Marguerite Yourcenar's collection of short stories, published by Alfaguara in paperback (165 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together short stories that move from China to Greece and from the Balkans to Japan, with echoes of Eastern legends and traditions. Each story offers its own atmosphere and a literary approach to distant worlds, in a book that underscores the author's fascination with other cultures.
The edition belongs to the Alfaguara/Bolsillo collection, with a translation by Emma Calatayud and an illustrated cover; reprint of the first edition of 1993, based on the original Nouvelles orientales.
It is intended for fans of short fiction and Eastern cultures, as well as for those who want to discover Marguerite Yourcenar.
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.
