Margins
1991
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A excepción de Mishima o la visión del vacío (1980), este volumen incluye la práctica totalidad de los ensayos escritos por la autora y reunidos en los volúmenes A beneficio de inventario (1962), El tiempo, gran escultor (1983), Peregrina y extranjera (1989) y Una vuelta por mi cárcel (1991). Los textos sobrevuelan los temas que más interesaron y preocuparon a esta gran escritora de la contemporaneidad: desde cuestiones estéticas relacionadas con el arte, la música y la literatura; hasta su reflexión de naturaleza filosófica sobre la existencia, el pesar del transcurrir del tiempo, la religión, la búsqueda de la belleza o la experiencia vital y transformadora del viaje. Una obra, en fin, compleja, que araña en los recovecos de la naturaleza humana, con sus pasiones y derrotas.

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Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
Author · 31 books

Marguerite Yourcenar, original name Marguerite de Crayencour, was a french novelist, essayist, poet and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française (French Academy), an exclusive literary institution with a membership limited to 40. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1947. The name “Yourcenar” is an imperfect anagram of her original name, “Crayencour.” Yourcenar’s literary works are notable for their rigorously classical style, their erudition, and their psychological subtlety. In her most important books she re-creates past eras and personages, meditating thereby on human destiny, morality, and power. Her masterpiece is Mémoires d'Hadrien, a historical novel constituting the fictionalized memoirs of that 2nd-century Roman emperor. Her works were translated by the American Grace Frick, Yourcenar’s secretary and life companion. Yourcenar was also a literary critic and translator.

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