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Marguerite Yourcenar

Born

in Brussels, Belgium

June 08, 1903

Died

December 17, 1987

Genre

Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction

Influences

Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Mishima, Jean Racine, ...more

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Marguerite Yourcenar, original name Marguerite de Crayencour, was a french novelist, essayist, poet and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française (French Academy), an exclusive literary institution with a membership limited to 40.
She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1947. The name “Yourcenar” is an imperfect anagram of her original name, “Crayencour.”

Yourcenar’s literary works are notable for their rigorously classical style, their erudition, and their psychological subtlety. In her most important books she re-creates past eras and personages, meditating thereby on human destiny, morality, and power. Her masterpiece is Mémoires d'Hadrien, a historical novel constituting the fictionalized memoi ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 63,003 ratings · 6,115 reviews · 175 distinct works • Similar authors

	Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 36,183 ratings — published 1951	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'Œuvre au noir 4.02 avg rating — 6,205 ratings — published 1968 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oriental Tales 3.86 avg rating — 4,440 ratings — published 1938 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate 3.98 avg rating — 2,422 ratings — published 1929 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coup de Grâce 3.67 avg rating — 2,008 ratings — published 1939 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fires 4.07 avg rating — 1,502 ratings — published 1936 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alexis ou le Traité du vain combat / Le Coup de grâce 3.94 avg rating — 1,355 ratings — published 1971 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mishima ou La vision du vide 3.67 avg rating — 854 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anna, soror... 3.71 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 1981 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Lives and a Dream by Marguerite Yourcenar, Walter Kaiser (Translation) 3.67 avg rating — 728 ratings — published 1982 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Marguerite Yourcenar (?)

“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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“Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

tags: books, knowledge, literature, reading, self, words

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Polls

October 2018 New School Poll

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 1992, 559 pages

85 votes, 27.0%

The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, 1915, 375 pages

82 votes, 26.0%

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman, 1986, 296 pages

48 votes, 15.2%

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, 1951, 347 pages

36 votes, 11.4%

Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather, 1931, 229 page

35 votes, 11.1%

White Noise by Don DeLillo,1984, 320 pages

29 votes, 9.2%

315 total votes

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