by Marguerite Yourcenar · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070369218
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«Mémoires d'Hadrien» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Gallimard in paperback (384 pages, in French).
In the novel, the emperor Hadrian, at the end of his life, writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius in which he reviews his reign, his military campaigns, his love of poetry and beauty, and the contradictions of power. Yourcenar reconstructs imperial Rome from within and reflects on memory, happiness and the fate of civilizations.
Work awarded the Prix Femina Vacaresco in 1952; this French edition belongs to the Folio collection (no. 921) and includes the Carnets de notes de Mémoires d'Hadrien.
For those who enjoy historical fiction, classical antiquity and twentieth-century French literature.
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.
