Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her masterpiece is Mémoires d'Hadrien, a historical novel constituting the fictionalized memoi 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. In her most important books she re-creates past eras and personages, meditating thereby on human destiny, morality, and power. 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. 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. ![]()
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