Memoirs of Hadrian :
Yourcenar, Marguerite
Memoirs of Hadrian : and reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian / translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author Marguerite Yourcenar. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, c1963. - 346 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Translation of: Mémoires d'Hadrien.
"Both an exploration of character and a meditation on history, Marguerite Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first 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, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own time." -- Back cover.
9780374529260 0374529264
Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 --Fiction
843.912
Memoirs of Hadrian : and reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian / translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author Marguerite Yourcenar. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, c1963. - 346 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Translation of: Mémoires d'Hadrien.
"Both an exploration of character and a meditation on history, Marguerite Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first 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, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own time." -- Back cover.
9780374529260 0374529264
Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 --Fiction
843.912