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Marguerite Yourcenar

1903-06-08 - 1987-12-17

Marguerite Yourcenar, pseudonyme de Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour, née le 8 juin 1903 à Bruxelles et morte le 17 décembre 1987 à Bar Harbor dans l'État du Maine (États-Unis), est une femme de lettres française (naturalisée américaine en 1947). Romancière, nouvelliste et autobiographe, elle est aussi poétesse, traductrice, essayiste et critique littéraire. Elle est la première femme élue membre de l'Académie française en 1980.

Des romans historiques aux mémoires autobiographiques, l'œuvre de Yourcenar se caractérise d'abord par l'élaboration esthétique de sa langue, au style épuré et classique, et par le privilège donné à la narration. Inspirée à la fois par la sagesse orientale et la philosophie gréco-latine, la pensée de l'écrivaine se reconnaît notamment dans l'humanisme de la Renaissance entendu comme curiosité universelle nourrie par la lecture des livres anciens.

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Subjects
French Authors, Love, Biography, Fiction, Fiction, general, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Criticism and interpretation, Correspondence, Translations into English, History, Yourcenar, marguerite, 1903-1987, Interviews, Authors, french, Translations into French, Family, Family relationships, French Novelists, French literature, Japanese Authors, Poetry, Romance literature, African American authors, African Americans, American poetry, Authors, French
Places
Rome, Nord (France : Dept.), Andalusia (Spain), Baltic Provinces, Brügge, China, Europa, Europe, Foreign countries, France, Greece, Italy, Japon, Kurland, Nord (France : Département), Orient, Rome (Italy), Russia (Federation), Southern States, Tivoli (Italy)
People
Marguerite Yourcenar, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), Cleenewerck de Crayencour family, Hadrian Emperor of Rome (76-138), Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), Marguérite Yourcenar (1903-1987), Mary Magdalene Saint, Michel de Crayencour, Roger Caillois (1913-1978), ADRIANO EMPERADOR DE ROMA (76-138 d.C), Adriano Emperador de Roma (76-138), Benjamin Mather Woodbridge (1884-), Cartier de Marchienne Familie, Emperor of Rome Hadrianus (76-138), Emperor of Rome, 76-138 Hadrian, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Hadrian, Hadrianus, Hadrianus Emperor of Rome (76-138), Jayadeva (12th cent), Michel de Crayencour (1853-1928), Pindar, Publius Aelius Hadrianus imperatore romano (76-138)
Time
20th century, 1933, Hadrian, 117-138, 117-138, 16th century, 1903-1918, Geschichte 1919, Russian Revolution (1917-1921), Siglo XVI, Siglo XX

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Alternative names

  • Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour
  • Marguerite de Crayencour
  • Yourcenar
  • Margureit Yourcenar
  • Yourcenar/Marguerite
  • Yourcenar Marguerite
  • Marguirite Yourcenar
  • M. Yourcenar
  • Margu Yourcenar
  • Yourcenar, Marguerite, 1903-1987 (Autor)
  • YOURCENAR,MARGU
  • MARGUERITE YOURCENAR
  • Yourcenar Marguerite .
  • Margurite Yourcenar
  • YOURCENAR (Marguerite).
  • Professor Marguerite Yourcenar
  • Yourcenar Margueurite

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