The first woman to be elected to The French Academy, the multi talented personality of Marguerite Yourcenar was a novelist, essayist, playwright, short story writer, poet and translator. She was an artist at reconstructing historical eras in the form of her novels. Her novels, dealing with modern issues set in historical eras won her immense fame as a writer.
The inheritance Yourcenar received after the death of her father, allowed her to devote herself to traveling and literary pursuits and love affairs on the Paris artistic scene. She joined a bohemian crowd of artists, moving between Paris, Lausanne, Athens, Istanbul, Brussels and the Greek islands, which inspired her travel writing "Nouvelles Orientales" and "Feux" based on Greek mythology.
Yourcenar was among the first female writers to live an openly lesbian lifestyle, and she moved to the USA in 1939 to live with her partner Grace Frick. The couple were to remain together until Frick’s death in 1979. She taught French History and History of Art, and continued to write: her novel "Mémoires d’Hadrien" was published in 1951 and enjoyed success with both the critics and the public worldwide.
She was an inveterate traveller and remained active right up to her death in 1987. She was a militant vegetarian and defender of the rights of animals and inspired Brigitte Bardot to set up her animal sanctuary.
Both 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 emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.
清点一下出版过的老皇帝回忆录: 刘扳盛《一个罗马皇帝的临终遗言》 花城出版社 罗芃 《阿德里安回忆录》(《尤瑟纳尔研究》)漓江出版社 洪藤月 《哈德里安回忆录》 光复书局(台) 陈筱卿 《哈德良回忆录》 东方出版社,2011年三联重出还是用这版 可以说出的中文译本基...
评分如果有兴致可以仔细比较一下这版和东方、三联那版,其实也不需要仔细,稍微翻一下,便高下立判。这版语言优雅,富有韵味,更能体现原文的气质。陈那版就不说啥了,居然还是翻译过很多世界名著的。翻译界之混乱,可见一斑。 不说版本,光看此书,绝对值得一读。她的书都非常值...
评分Memoirs of Hadrian在於哈德良安是實在的人,他在羅馬帝國歷史上舉足輕重,而這個自傳是虛構的,據說他本人確實寫過自傳,可是已遺失了。於是這個傳記是歷史和虛幻的交匯點,更甚是,書中對於哈德良的事跡與他的沉思也互相交替,她要藉單獨一個偉人的思想重新建構一個世界。與...
评分比起历史小说,我更愿意称本书为一部哲学小说或随笔。一般历史小说中那种跌宕起伏、激动人心的情节设计,那些极其细腻、乃至有些繁复的细节描写,到了本书中都被淡化,经历了主人公记忆的一层过滤,情节叙述变得平静,场景描写变得精炼概括。给我留下深刻印象的,反而是那些不...
评分A famous book, but not good for me. Mostly a bit of this and that, here and there, love, war, laws, travels, mourning, old age. It lacks focus and depth. For me, the most interesting part is his meditation about death. It rings genuine feelings. But again...
读完一遍舍不得丢开,还想反复读,不停的读。我一向崇尚简单的语言,这本书让我领略另一种英文之美,由复杂句和生僻词精准砌出的迷宫般文字可以表达这样深邃清晰的智慧!看似历史小说,作者下的研究工夫不亚于学术著作,说是翻译,文字之令人叹服远胜很多英文原著。找到一本可以读上很多年的书多么幸福。
评分神马时候可以看法语本啊啊啊
评分一副徐徐展开的画卷。所见之处是极致的美。你仿佛触摸到哈德裏安的思想,借由他的灵魂去看,去听,去感受......妙不可言。
评分Mutterings from half wakened dreams. 'I was reaching the age when each beauteous place recalls another, fairer still, when each delight is weighted with the memory of past joys. I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.' '… man existing alone and yet closely bound with all being.'
评分有点太文学勒
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