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Memoirs of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar,

Grace Frick (Translator)

Start date: June 10, 2022

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Sep 02, 2016 Michael Finocchiaro rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, read-in-french, goncourt, novels, fiction, historical-fiction, french-20th-c

This is a gorgeous book by Marguerite Yourcenar with the emperor writing to future emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius about his life and the burdens of leadership. Its tone is a perfect balance of nostalgia, regret and pride all mixed together. A true masterpiece that took her ten years to write, it is also very short and a magnificent read. I found that it was very inspirational and was amazed in how this period of Roman history comes alive under Yourcenar's able pen. An incredible read!
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Mar 22, 2020 P.E. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: epistolaire, monologue, history, 0-malle-de-voyage, biography, characters, wanderlust

An ambitious inner portrait of Emperor Hadrian by thoughtful Marguerite Yourcenar.

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