by Marguerite Yourcenar · Assimil Gmbh · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070367986
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«L'Œuvre au Noir» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published in the Folio collection by Gallimard in paperback (511 pages, in French).
Set in the sixteenth century, it follows Zénon, a physician, philosopher and alchemist born in Bruges, on his journey through a turbulent Europe. Yourcenar reconstructs the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and explores, through this free man, the pursuit of knowledge, individual autonomy and the clash between reason and faith.
Originally published in 1968, it won the Prix Femina; it corresponds to volume 798 of the Folio collection.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction and French classics, particularly those who wish to read Yourcenar in her original language.
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.
