Hadrianus minnen (Pocket)
avYourcenar, Marguerite
ISBN: 9789100108281 - UTGIVEN: 2005-10-28Hadrianus var kejsare i Rom 117-138 e kr och ledde ett mäktiga imperium, grundade städer och byggde befästningar. Ett minne från hans storhetstid är Tivoli utanför Rom där Hadrianus villa ligger. Det var hit han drog sig tillbaka på ålderns höst för att slippa Roms intriger och rävspel, [...]
Memoirs of Hadrian (Storpocket)
avMarguerite Yourcenar
ISBN: 9780141184968 - UTGIVEN: 200012In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his[...]
Fires (Häftad)
avMarguerite Yourcenar
ISBN: 9780226965284 - UTGIVEN: 1994-11"Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the au[...]
Mishima: A Vision of the Void (Häftad)
avMarguerite Yourcenar, Donald Richie
ISBN: 9780226965321 - UTGIVEN: 2001-09On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection f[...]
The Abyss (Häftad)
avMarguerite Yourcenar
ISBN: 9780374516666 - UTGIVEN: 198108Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel "The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.
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Two Lives and a Dream (Häftad)
avMarguerite Yourcenar
ISBN: 9780374520915 - UTGIVEN: 198803This book of three novellas was first published in Paris in 1982, where it was hailed as the finest book of novellas since Flaubert's Trois Contes.
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Memoirs of Hadrian (Häftad)
avMarguerite Yourcenar
ISBN: 9780374529260 - UTGIVEN: 200505Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as[...]
Orientalske noveller (Häftad)
avMarguerite Yourcenar
ISBN: 9788799364183 - UTGIVEN: 2014-01Marguerite Yourcenar har en usædvanlig evne til at udtrykke meget med et minimum af ord. Hendes Orientalske noveller er korte, men dybsindige. Man føler mere end nogensinde ordenes magt - og kærlighedens eller kunstens magt, skønhedens og venskabets.
En refleksion over livets muligheder [...]
