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It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love.
"The rich, many colored subtlety of her great novels -- Memoirs of Dadrian; The Abyss; Alexis; Coup de Grace; and others -- is reminiscent of their intricate tapestries, while her sublime mystical appreciation of Nature and its beauty evokes the golden age of landscape painting in the Low Countries." - The Paris Review
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Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) wrote plays, stories, poems, and novels, including the notable Memoirs of Hadrian. She was the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise.
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- PublisherAidan Ellis
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0856281387
- ISBN 13 9780856281389
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description hardback in dustjacket, both in very good plus condition, 108pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No inscriptions. Original cream cloth gilt. .Translated from the French by Walter Kaiser in collaboration with the author. Originally published 1929 in French this is the first English edition. An astonishing and profound analysis of a man's homosexuality - astonishing in that it was written by a then 24 year old woman. ISBN: 0856281387. Seller Inventory # 2664
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Book Description 8vo. pp 105. No inscriptions. Clean decent copy. Fine in fine dust wrapper. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Seller Inventory # 62512
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Ex library but with only fairly discreet stamps &c. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£8.95), previous owner's name to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age and ex library. 108pp. It was with 'Alexis' that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love. Marguerite de Crayencour (1903-88), who went by the inexact anagrammatic pen name 'Marguerite Yourcenar', was a Belgian born French novelist and essayist, the first woman to be elected to the Academie Française. In 1939 she was invited to America by her lover Grace Frick, where she lectured in comparative literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. When her bestseller 'Memoires d'Hadrien' was first published in 1951, it was an immediate success and quickly translated into English by the lovers. Seller Inventory # 010975
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