by Marguerite Yourcenar · Gallimard Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070299737
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«Nouvelles Orientales» is Marguerite Yourcenar's collection of short stories, published by Gallimard in paperback (149 pages, in French).
These stories are rewritings of legends and fables from Eastern and Balkan tradition; written in the years before the Second World War, they range from China to Greece, from the Balkans to Japan. Dream, myth and reality merge in tales where desire and passion surface intensely, with characters such as the painter Wang-Fô or the Serbian hero Marko Kralievitch.
It belongs to Gallimard's L'Imaginaire collection (volume 31); this edition is the revised and expanded one of 1978.
For readers of short stories and French literature, with an interest in the rewriting of myths and legends from Asia and the Balkans.
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.
