Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life

by Josyane Savigneau

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Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. She lost her mother at birth, her native Belgium at the age of six, and was forced to flee her adopted France at twelve. It is little wonder that Yourcenar, whose own early past receded so quickly into personal legend, would one day describe her writing as the "passionate reconstitution, at once detailed and free, of a moment or a man out of the past." One of the most respected...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226735443

ISBN13:9780226735443

Release Date:October 1993

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:546 Pages

Weight:2.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Arts & Literature Authors Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Contemporary European Fiction Foreign Language Fiction Foreign Language Study & Reference Instruction Literature & Fiction World Literature

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