by Marguerite Yourcenar · Editorial Alfaguara · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788420427263
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«El tiempo, gran escultor» is the essay collection by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Editorial Alfaguara in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
A collection of essays in which Marguerite Yourcenar ranges from Christianity and beauty to Hindu mysticism and Andalusia, always with the passage of time as a backdrop. In the title essay, the erosion of a statue serves to reflect on how time transforms art and makes a new work possible.
The work was published in 1999; the cover of this edition reproduces a scene of human and animal figures inspired by traditional Indian painting.
For essay readers and admirers of Marguerite Yourcenar, with an interest in art, culture, and history.
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.
