Pellegrina e straniera
by Marguerite Yourcenar
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Questa raccolta testimonia la multiforme varietà di interessi e suggestioni coltivati da Marguerite Yourcenar. Scritti in periodi e luoghi diversi, lungo un arco di tempo compreso fra il 1934 e il 1987, i testi inclusi nella raccolta toccano argomenti diversi: viaggi, quadri, libri, ricordi. L'autrice entra nel grande paese dell'arte, si fa compagna di Poussin, Rembrandt o Durer, si mette accanto ad Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Borges o Virginia Woolf, percorre i villaggi della Grecia antica e show more ci offre una mirabile descrizione dei mosaici di Ravenna. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali show lessTags
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Verzameling essays uit de jaren 30 en de jaren 80, curieuze samenstelling dus, met deze nuancering dat ze bijna allemaal over literatuur gaan. Yourcenar etaleert andermaal haar grote eruditie, met mijn klassieke bedenking dat ze nogal overdrijft met het opsommen van levenswijsheden. Het essay over Innsbruck is wat mij betreft een sleutelwerkje, waarin enkele van haar fundamentele inzichten aan bod komen.
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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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- Canonical title*
- Als pelgrim en als vreemdeling
- Original title
- En pèlerin et en étranger
- Original publication date
- 1989
- Original language*
- Francés
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 848.91208 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French miscellaneous writings 1900- 1900-1999 1900-1945 Prose
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- PQ2649 .O8 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
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