Marguerite Yourcenar

Jugeant sans complaisance sa vie d'homme et son oeuvre politique, Hadrien n'ignore pas que Rome, malgré sa grandeur, finira un jour par périr, mais son réalisme romain et son humanisme hérité des Grecs lui font sentir l'importance de penser et de servir jusqu'au bout. Les dangers mortels qui du dedans et du dehors confrontent les civilisations, la quête d'un accord harmonieux entre le bonheur et la 'discipline auguste', entre l'intelligence et la volonté.

Mémoires d'Hadrien

'Mi sentivo responsabile della bellezza del mondo', dice di sé Adriano, questo personaggio cosí raffinatamente calato nella sua epoca, eppure cosí vicino al tormento di ogni uomo, di ogni tempo, nell'accanita ricerca di un accordo tra felicità e logica, tra intelligenza e fato. Il capolavoro di Marguerite Yourcenar unisce al cesello perfetto della ricostruzione storica il coraggio di presentare a tutto tondo un grand'uomo, l'altezza del suo pensiero, la disponibilità intellettuale, le intuizioni profetiche, donandoci non già un saggio erudito, ma un libro dei giorni nostri, e dei giorni a venire. Perché, come ha scritto la Yourcenar, 'non siamo i soli a guardare in faccia un avvenire inesorabile'. I taccuini di appunti dell'autrice (annotazioni di studio, lampi di autobiografia, ricordi, vicissitudini della scrittura) perfezionano la conoscenza di un'opera che fu pensata, composta, smarrita, corretta per quasi un trentennio. La nota della traduttrice, Lidia Storoni Mazzolani, ci regala la storia di un'amicizia nata lavorando insieme alla versione italiana.

Memorie di Adriano. Seguite dai taccuini di appunti

Doǧu öyküleri

Alexis o El tratado del inútil combate

Memorias de Adriano

Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grace tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love for Conrad becomes an unbearable burden.

Coup de Grace

These tales draw inspiration from the East yet follow no established tradition as their language, rich in images, calls up other, secret meanings, in stories of a painter bewitched by images, a hero betrayed, and of the unhappiness of the goddess Kali

Oriental Tales

The story of the fate of two cousins in sixteenth century northern France. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and a poet. The elder, twenty-two-year-old Zeno, has left the seminary to make himself an alchemist-philosopher.

A Novel

The Abyss

Alberto Manguel

Wholphin No 10 includes a heartbreaking, must-see Jonathan Demme documentary on a proud New Orleans couple coming to terms with their post-Katrina loss; Natalie Portman's touching directorial debut, "Eve," starring Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara and Olivia Thirlby; a surreal homage to a 1960s Christian television show for kids starring Todd Haynes; an unbelievable documentary about a Pentecostal minister who gets word from God that he will become the "Rolls Royce" of filmmaking; award-winning animation; films from Australia, Canada and Singapore; and much more.

A Vision of the Void

Mishima

Roman

Hadrianus'un anıları

Bir ölüm bağişlamak

During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people—including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude. "A Coin in Nine Hands has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history."—Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review "What lingers at the end of A Coin in Nine Hands is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him."—Anne Tyler, The New Republic "Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic."—Cynthia King, Houston Post "Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation."—Publisher's Weekly Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française.

A Coin in Nine Hands

deneme

Mişima ya da Boşluk algısı

Cuentos orientales

seguite dai taccuini di appunti

Memorie di Adriano

Walter Kaiser

This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the erosion of a statue and the resulting production of a new, sublime work of art.

That Mighty Sculptor, Time

Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale."-Stephen Koch, New York Times Book Review Consists of 9 monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Interspersed are highly personal notations, reflecting a time of profound innner crisis in the author's life.

Fires

Analyse : Roman d'amour. Roman philosophique.

Suivi de la Coup de grâce

Alexis ou le Traité du vain combat

Alexis o il trattato della lotta vana

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 différence au sexe qui est, je crois, celle de tous les créateurs en présence de leurs créatures.

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