and Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian Yourcenar, Marguerite 1903-1987 creator Frick, Grace text nyu New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005 Paperback edition monographic eng

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347 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Both an exploration of character and a meditation on history, Marguerite Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its publication in France in 1951. Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, the work is as extraordinary for its psychological depth as for its accurate reconstruction of the second century of our era. In it, Yourcenar reimagines Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his reordering of a war-torn world Animula vagula blandula Varius multiplex multiformis Tellus stabilita Saeculum aureum Disciplina augusta Patientia Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick Y81m 2005 9780374529260 0374529264 260629 20260629100523.0 eng