by Marguerite Yourcenar · BBVA / LA VANGUARDIA / PLANETA DEAGOSTINI, Barcelona · tapa dura · ISBN 8431474001347
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«Memorias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by BBVA/La Vanguardia/Planeta DeAgostini in hardcover (273 pages).
The novel is presented as a letter from Emperor Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius in which he reviews his public and private life: campaigns, travels, decisions of government, affections and the awareness of death. More than a biography, it is a meditation on power, memory and the human condition.
The novel was originally published in 1951; this Spanish edition, from 2003, belongs to the Selección Contemporáneos collection.
For readers of historical fiction interested in Roman antiquity and in the introspection of an emperor.
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.
