Dear Departed - Marguerite Yourcenar

[Luke]

Dear Departed, Marguerite Yourcenar, translated from French by Maria Louise Ascher, 1974, France, BIOGRAPHY

"...Ostensibly a search into her mother's ancestors, about whom the author has few family stories or memories to rely on, the book is actually a luminous collage of historical anecdotes, visits to châteaus past and present, philosophical musings, angry denunciations of industrial practices, semifictional biographies, and marvelous recreations of life among the Belgian landed gentry of long ago..."

(E.B., p. 144)