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I have pretty much every reason to believe it's not taking too many liberties with historical accuracy. Best of all: Audiobooks are yours forever, even if you cancel. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Depuis lors je ne cessais de le reprendre pour en lire un passage ou plus. Probably because, the dubber thereof, in his/her/their infinite wisdom would dub any book with a gay central character as gay. Plus, you'll get an additional audiobook per month after trial. But it is. We’d love your help. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imagi Ce livre est vraiment un classique de ce genre. Cette œuvre est à la fois roman, histoire et poésie. DESIRE AND EROTICISM IN DICTATORIAL TIMES manca), which asked for “clearly determined mat-ters and unapproachable subjects, and to provide enough space to make it possible to create a kind of cinema that could address important subjects”3 as well as the request that censorship only be practiced by …

Questo libro deve essere presente in ogni biblioteca e merita ogni minuto passato in sua compagnia. Les notes jointes au livre témoignent du travail formidable entrepris en amont. However, her vision of Hadrian is a rarefied one, almost at the intensity of an apotheosis. Κάτι που δεν έχω συναντήσει ξανά.

Except that it is, rather as poor Atlas uplifts the Heavens.No, this is not an uplifting book.

Depuis lors je ne cessais de le reprendre pour en lire un passage ou plus. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s An illustration of two cells of a film strip. An illustration of text ellipses. Hadrian was never a conqueror, but rather a strong leader who brought controversial changes to the Roman laws which made life more bearable and humane for the vast empire.The statue of Hadrian, the 14th Emperor of the Roman Empire, was brought alive by the French author Marguerite Yourcenar in this novel.
Είναι τόσο καλογραμμένο που προς στιγμήν νομίζεις ότι είναι η αυτοβιογραφία του ίδιου του Αδριανού, ενός πολύ ενδιαφέροντος ιστορικού προσώπου. but not all of it. Choisir d 'écrire les mémoires d'un empereur romain à la première personne et sous l'apparence d'une longue lettre écrite à son jeune successeur de 17 ans est assurément le pari le plus périlleux réussi par Yourcenar et qui ce livre, cette vie encore vibrante aux lecteurs d'aujourd'hui.
Sill a very capable man born in Italica, what is now Spain to a Roman family of landowners and Senators, they had left Italy centuries before and prospered. L'intelligence et la finesse de l'auteur sont telles que le contenu de ce livre ne saurait se résumer à un système, car tout y est exprimé avec nuance. The thing is that I can’t tell you exactly what that word is, nor what it means. It is that, but it is also biography, philosophy, meditation, poetry.This is a book that I don’t think I would have read if it weren’t for Goodreads. This is because she mostly uses French words that etymologically come from Latin and Greek, which might explain the 20 years it took her to complete it, and she completely avoids the contrived prose that might have resulted. Είναι τόσο καλογραμμένο που προς στιγμήν νομίζεις ότι είναι η αυτοβιογραφία του ίδιου του Αδριανού, ενός πολύ ενδιαφέροντος ιστορικού προσώπου. Its tone is a perfect balance of nostalgia, regret and pride all mixed together. An "autobiographical" account of a long-dead Roman emperor (not even one of the glamorous, or truly filthy ones), written by a 20th century Frenchwoman - who'd have thunk it?This is an unlikely candidate to be on my all-time list of the 5 best books I've ever read. A crisis appears the dying, feeble ruler is in no hurry to officially name his successor ( maybe this will insure his demise), too busy planning and fighting a war in faraway Mesopotamia ( and dreams of future conquests, for his glory ) a bloody conflict that cannot be won. I’d go so far as to say that this word is the underlying descriptor for the majority of my favorite books, in some way. What his contemporaries viewed as simply ruins, took on new life in his rendering, imbued with the phantasms of his peculiar imagination. She was acutely aware of all the pitfalls involved, and used her considerable skills to efface herself from the process; "she did not want to breathe on the mirror". Magnifique roman, moins élitiste que L'Oeuvre au noir, et donc bien plus agréable à lire. A sua importância ímpar foi reconhecida desde o império helénico que lhe dedicou uma deusa, de nome Mnemosine, mãe das Musas, protectoras das artes.

"Hadrien: c'est vous" some critics said; une "grossièrté" Yourcenar called this attitude. Imbu de lui-même, soi-disant réformateur génial du monde connu de l'époque, soldat sévère, pédophile, paternaliste, méprisant les femmes, ... je le trouve détestable. An incredible read!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.