by Marguerite Yourcenar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484504900
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«Memorias de Adriano» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Debolsillo in paperback (271 pages, in Spanish).
In this novel, Emperor Hadrian reviews his life: his education, his campaigns, his achievements and setbacks, and his attempt to pacify and reorganize a turbulent empire. Marguerite Yourcenar explores the solitude of power, the relationship between history and the ruler, and the question of legacy.
The 2001 edition of «Memorias de Adriano» belongs to the Ave Fénix collection; the work was originally published in France in 1951.
For readers of historical fiction seeking a literary and introspective approach to a figure from the Roman world.
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.
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