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Marguerite Yourcenar

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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French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)

Born 1903-06-08
Died 1987-12-17

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  • Cover of: Alexis: ou, Le traité du vain combat suivi de Le coup de grâce

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French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)

Born 1903-06-08
Died 1987-12-17

Subjects

French Authors, Love, Biography, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, Correspondence, Criticism and interpretation, Fiction, general, Interviews, Translations into French, French literature, History, African American authors, African Americans, American poetry, Family, Family relationships, French Novelists, French language materials, French poetry, Romance literature, Songs and music, Spirituals (Songs), Texts, Translations into English

Places

Rome, Andalusia (Spain), China, Foreign countries, France, Greece, Italy, Japon, Kurland, Nord (France : Dept.), Nord (France : Département), Southern States, Tivoli (Italy)

People

Marguerite Yourcenar, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), Hadrian Emperor of Rome (76-138), Cleenewerck de Crayencour family, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), Marguérite Yourcenar (1903-1987), Michel de Crayencour, Roger Caillois (1913-1978), Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Cartier de Marchienne Familie, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Hadrianus, Jayadeva (12th cent), Michel de Crayencour (1853-1928), Pindar, Publius Aelius Hadrianus imperatore romano (76-138), Roger Caillois, Roger Caillois (1913-), Roman emperor (76-138), Silvia Baron Supervielle

Time

20th century, 1933, 1903-1918, Geschichte 1919, Hadrian, 117-138

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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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