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A Memoir

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

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Marguerite Yourcenar, one of France's most celebrated authors, here continues the absorbing tale of her background and origins. The first volume of her autobiographical trilogy, Dear Departed, was devoted to her maternal forebears. The current book, originally published in 1977 under the title Archives du Nord and now making its first appearance in English, introduces us to her father's side of the family. Yourcenar takes us back in time, to relive the tumultuous history of northeastern France through the eyes of a remarkable gallery of ancestors: canonesses and matriarchs, statesmen and scoundrels, merchants and artists (the painter Peter Paul Rubens married into the family). But the central character in the narrative is the individual who had the greatest formative influence on Yourcenar: her father, Michel de Crayencour, who educated her, encouraged her literary ambitions, and fostered in her the intellectual breadth, originality, and subtlety that are so characteristic of her work.

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396

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Farrar Straus & Giroux

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0374524939

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9780374524937

Dear Departed

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

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Dear Departed

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

First published in French in 1974 under the title 'Souvenirs Pieux', DEAR DEPARTED is the first volume of a trilogy by Marguerite Yourcenar, one of the most celebrated French writers of the century, devoted to her own origins and background. Yourcenar describes the events surrounding her birth in 1903, then takes us back through the centuries to meet her mother's forebears: soldiers, essayists, idealists, heroines, even ambassadors. Throughout, the history of the family serves as a window on the history of a rapidly-changing Europe.Using memoirs, letters and momentos, Yourcenar richly evokes both the larger events on the European stage and the rhythms and textures of everyday existence. Though rarely visible, Yourcenar is everywhere present, her perceptions rendered in her unmistakable voice. The book is a tour-de-force of historical and literary imagination.

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346

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Virago Press

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1860493548

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9781860493546

Anna, soror...

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

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Anna, soror...

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

Anna, soror... fut écrit en quelques semaines du printemps 1925, au cours d'un séjour à Naples et immédiatement au retour de celui-ci [...] Jamais invention romanesque ne fut plus immédiatement inspirée par les lieux où on la plaçait. J'ai goûté pour la première fois avec Anna, soror... le suprême privilège du romancier, celui de se perdre tout entier dans ses personnages, ou de se laisser posséder par eux. Durant ces quelques semaines, et tout en continuant à faire les gestes et à assumer les rapports habituels de l'existence, j'ai vécu sans cesse à l'intérieur de ces deux corps et de ces deux âmes, me glissant d'Anna en Miguel et de Miguel en Anna, avec cette indifférence au sexe qui est, je crois, celle de tous les créateurs en présence de leurs créatures." Marguerite Yourcenar.

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Editions Gallimard

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2072535794

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9782072535796

The Abyss

By: Marguerite Yourcenar,Grace Frick

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The Abyss

By: Marguerite Yourcenar,Grace Frick

Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel "The Abyss." Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.

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374

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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0297772082

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9780297772088

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Dear Departed

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