by Marguerite Yourcenar · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440692313
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«Memòries d'Adrià» is the historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Ediciones B in paperback (375 pages, in Catalan).
The emperor Hadrian, old and close to death, recalls his life in a long letter to Marcus Aurelius: his political and military career, the management of the Empire, his loves, and the aspiration to a model of ruler inspired by Platonic philosophy, while reflecting on power, history, and the human condition.
Novel originally published in French as «Mémoires d'Hadrien» in 1951, translated into Catalan by Jaume Creus and awarded the Prix Femina Vacaresco in 1952.
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.
