Un homme obscur
by Marguerite Yourcenar
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Lindamente escrito. O anti-Zênon, tão fascinante quanto, mas que passa incólume por tudo, o mestre-escola, Jeanette, a briga com o bêbado, a fuga, o cozinheiro mestiço, a Ilha Perdida, a oficina de impressão, os passeios pelo parque, a “bela judia”, a casa que ele arruma como se fosse para uma rainha, a crise na noite de neve, o hospital, a casa em que ele trabalha e o afeto que sente pelos patrões, a morte na ilha frísia...
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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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