Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life

by Josyane Savigneau

Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. She lost her mother at birth, her native Belgium at the age of six, and was forced to flee her adopted France at twelve. It is little wonder that Yourcenar, whose own early past receded so quickly into personal legend, would one day describe her writing as the "passionate reconstitution, at once detailed and free, of a moment or a man out of the past." One of the most respected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226735443
• ISBN13: 9780226735443
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"