| Alexis Contributor(s): Yourcenar, Marguerite (Author), Kaiser, Walter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374519064 ISBN-13: 9780374519063 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1985 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 84006009 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.38 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love. The rich, many colored subtlety of her great novels -- Memoirs of Dadrian; The Abyss; Alexis; Coup de Grace; and others -- is reminiscent of their intricate tapestries, while her sublime mystical appreciation of Nature and its beauty evokes the golden age of landscape painting in the Low Countries. - The Paris Review |
Contributor Bio(s): Yourcenar, Marguerite: - Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) wrote plays, stories, poems, and novels, including the notable Memoirs of Hadrian. She was the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise. |