by Marguerite Yourcenar · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420424989
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«El tiempo, gran escultor» is the essay collection by Marguerite Yourcenar published by Alfaguara in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Essays on Marguerite Yourcenar's great themes: Christianity, beauty, and the passage of time. The author reflects on eroticism in India, evokes Countess Bathory and Dürer, recalls figures devoted to beauty, and devotes a text to Andalusia and the Hesperides that reveals her love for southern Spain.
Alfaguara's Literaturas collection. Translation by Emma Calatayud. The work was originally published in 1983 as «Le temps, ce grand sculpteur».
Will appeal to readers of essays, history, and literary criticism, and to followers of Marguerite Yourcenar's work.
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.
