Two Lives and a Dream

by Marguerite Yourcenar

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Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, "An Obscure Man" is the story of Nathanaël-innocent, open to experience-born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In "A Lovely Morning," Nathanaël's young son joins a touring company of Jacobean actors. "Anna, soror . . .," the final tale, is an account of illicit passion in the baroque world of Naples."An Obscure Man swarms with life. This intricately researched, imaginative, beautifully written tale of a young man's brief life in the mid-17th century is show more entirely engrossing."-Leona Weiss, San Francisco Chronicle"In these three stories, [Yourcenar] succeeds in making the essences of these past lives a part of the reader's future through the sheer intensity of their portrayal."-Margaret Ezell, Houston Chronicle show less

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Desde el bellísimo relato de incesto como acto voluntario en« Ana, soror#» hasta el Nathanael de «Un hombre oscuro», contrafigura del Zenón de Opus nigrum, o el Lazare de «Una hermosa mañana», encontramos en este volumen el genio vivo de Marguerite Yourcenar, la gran escritora a la que Jean D,Ormesson dedicó, en su discurso de respuesta en la Academia Francesa, las siguientes palabras:

«Si hubiera que caracterizar con una sola palabra el conjunto de su obra, no lo dudaría un momento: Yourcenar o el saber, naturalmente. Yourcenar o la serenidad, sin duda. Pero sobre todo, Yourcenar o la altura, Yourcenar o la elevación.»
Como el agua que fluye reúne tres relatos que se desenvuelven en la Europa del siglo XVII. Desde el bellísimo relato de incesto como acto voluntario en Ana soror hasta el Nathanael de Un hombre oscuro contrafigura del Zenón de Opus nigrum o el Lazare de Una hermosa mañana encontramos en este volumen el genio vivo de Marguerite Yourcenar la gran escritora
Desde el bellísimo relato de incesto como acto voluntario en “Ana, sopor…” hasta el Nathanael de “Un hombre oscuro”, contrafigura del Zenón de Opus nigrum, o el Lazare de “Una hermosa mañana”, encontramos en este libro del genio vivo de Marguerite Yourcenar.

Jean d`Ormesson dedicó a Marguerite Yourcenar, en su discurso de respuesta en la Academia Francesa, las siguientes palabras: “Si hubiera que caracterizar con una sola palabra el conjunto de su obra, no lo dudaría un momento: Yourcenar o el saber, naturalmente. Yourcenar o la serenidad, sin duda. Pero, sobre todo, Yourcenar o la altura, Yourcenar o la elevación.”
Bundel. Puntgave verhalen. "Anna, sorror..." is indrukwekkend, maar zwak slot. "Die ene man" is beste inleiding tot het oeuvre van Yourcenar. Tenslotte ook het sobere "een mooie ochtend"
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A French novelist, playwright, and essayist born in Belgium, Marguerite Yourcenar was a resident of the United States for many years, living in isolation on a small island off the coast of Maine. Educated at home by wealthy and cultured parents, she had a strong humanistic background, translating the ancient Greek poet Pindar and the poems of the show more modern Greek Constantine Cavafy. She has translated American Negro spirituals and works of Virginia Woolf (see Vol. 1) and Henry James (see Vol. 1). Her novels include Alexis (1929) and Coup de Grace (1939). A collection of poems, Fires, was published in 1936. Yourcenar is particularly known for Hadrian's Memoirs (1951), a philosophical meditation in the form of a fictional autobiography of the second-century Roman emperor. In Germaine Bree's judgment, "With great erudition and great psychological insight, Marguerite Yourcenar constructed a body of work that is a meditation on the destiny of mankind." In 1981, she became the first woman ever elected to the French Academy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Two Lives and a Dream

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General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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843.912Literature & rhetoricFrench LiteratureFrench fiction1900-20th Century1900-1945
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PQ2649 .O8 .C5813Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesFrench literatureModern literature1900-1960
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