by Marguerite Yourcenar · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408043621
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Memoirs of Hadrian is a historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published in 1951. The book is presented as a long letter from an old emperor to his adoptive grandson and eventual successor, Marcus Aurelius. In it, Emperor Hadrian reflects on his military triumphs, his love of poetry and music, his philosophy, and his passion for his young lover, Antinous. This Spanish edition was translated by Julio Cortázar and published by Booket.
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.
