The first woman to be elected to The French Academy, the multi talented personality of Marguerite Yourcenar was a novelist, essayist, playwright, short story writer, poet and translator. She was an artist at reconstructing historical eras in the form of her novels. Her novels, dealing with modern issues set in historical eras won her immense fame as a writer.
The inheritance Yourcenar received after the death of her father, allowed her to devote herself to traveling and literary pursuits and love affairs on the Paris artistic scene. She joined a bohemian crowd of artists, moving between Paris, Lausanne, Athens, Istanbul, Brussels and the Greek islands, which inspired her travel writing "Nouvelles Orientales" and "Feux" based on Greek mythology.
Yourcenar was among the first female writers to live an openly lesbian lifestyle, and she moved to the USA in 1939 to live with her partner Grace Frick. The couple were to remain together until Frick’s death in 1979. She taught French History and History of Art, and continued to write: her novel "Mémoires d’Hadrien" was published in 1951 and enjoyed success with both the critics and the public worldwide.
She was an inveterate traveller and remained active right up to her death in 1987. She was a militant vegetarian and defender of the rights of animals and inspired Brigitte Bardot to set up her animal sanctuary.
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual 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 and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.
这是现时北京市面上能够见到的《哈德良回忆录》唯一书面的读本,但是读完第一段便不知如何再继续下去。作为尤瑟纳尔最重要的一部恢弘史诗著作,这个译本叙事粗陋寡淡不说,尤瑟纳尔语言中特有的古典与优雅韵味也尽失,更别提获得其他什么阅读体验了。 以上是douban上某位的评...
评分清点一下出版过的老皇帝回忆录: 刘扳盛《一个罗马皇帝的临终遗言》 花城出版社 罗芃 《阿德里安回忆录》(《尤瑟纳尔研究》)漓江出版社 洪藤月 《哈德里安回忆录》 光复书局(台) 陈筱卿 《哈德良回忆录》 东方出版社,2011年三联重出还是用这版 可以说出的中文译本基...
评分Memoirs of Hadrian在於哈德良安是實在的人,他在羅馬帝國歷史上舉足輕重,而這個自傳是虛構的,據說他本人確實寫過自傳,可是已遺失了。於是這個傳記是歷史和虛幻的交匯點,更甚是,書中對於哈德良的事跡與他的沉思也互相交替,她要藉單獨一個偉人的思想重新建構一個世界。與...
评分因为罗芃老师的节译本只收入在《尤瑟纳尔研究》一书中,没有独立的豆瓣页面,故借地写一点最近重读罗译哈德良的随感。(五星好评给罗译) 豆瓣上有时会看到一些评论,说罗译接近知音体,没有体现尤瑟纳尔的高大上。其实,这里可能是对尤瑟纳尔有所误解的。尤瑟纳尔的文名很大,...
评分A famous book, but not good for me. Mostly a bit of this and that, here and there, love, war, laws, travels, mourning, old age. It lacks focus and depth. For me, the most interesting part is his meditation about death. It rings genuine feelings. But again...
很喜欢。看得很慢,不是一下子就想读完知道答案的那种,每天都会想看一点,一段时间没看都会记挂着。不仅达到了罗马皇帝人生的深度,也有一个时代。题外话,读者和作者的连接从第一个定tone的句子就开始了,这就是很主观的甄别,这本刚好是喜欢的。
评分18-19年读书计划,半英半中读完。不算难懂,年纪大了就习惯看真的假的回忆录。
评分很建议一读
评分Mutterings from half wakened dreams. 'I was reaching the age when each beauteous place recalls another, fairer still, when each delight is weighted with the memory of past joys. I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.' '… man existing alone and yet closely bound with all being.'
评分缓慢的阅读
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