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Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

This is only a short review of the book. Saddened by this loss, Hadrian founded the city of Antinopolis. Granted, I had no idea who Mishima was, even though he was[is] very well-known (as Wikipedia told me), but I read Memoirs of Hadrian in college, and as a result have dubbed Yourcenar one of my favorite writers. Yourcenar says that in an era “when introspection tends to dominate literary forms, the historical novel…must take the plunge into time recaptured, and must fully establish itself within some inner world. What a pleasure to have Andrew suggest Memoirs of Hadrian as preparatory reading for our January retreat! Hadrian notoriously had a romantic relationship with a Greek youth called Antinous, who mysteriously drowned in the Nile. Leslie Hewitt, Right This Minute, 2:36; 3. Kori Newkirk, Solon 6:12, 1:07; 4. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar With Augustus by John Williams coming in a very close second, Memoirs of Hadrian remains my favorite fictional life-of-the-Emperors book. French writer Marguerite Yourcenar devoted the better part of her adult life to researching and writing the Memoirs of Hadrian, published in 1951. Zakiyyah Jackson on Lyle Ashton Harris's Memoirs of Hadrian, #1, 2:11; 2. In her afterward to Memoirs of Hadrian. My second reading of Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian was no less powerful than my first, perhaps more powerful. Memoirs of Hadrian - Description: Memoirs of Hadrian is a novel by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian. I must say I didn't find it a book worthwhile reading, which is personal, as most people attribute it as a classic of the 20th century. 5 I have around 50 favourite books, being one of them ” Memoirs of Hadrian” by Marguerite Yourcenar and another one “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez.