This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including politics, war, and the Roman Empire. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. This clear and detailed 56-page reading guide...
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Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (Book Analysis)
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
978280628107456EBookPlurilingua PublishingThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including politics, war, and the Roman Empire. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 56-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Marguerite Yourcenar
Presentation of Memoirs of Hadrian
Summary of Memoirs of Hadrian
Character study
Hadrian
Attianus
Plotina
Lucius
Antinous
Arrian
Marcus Aurelius
Analysis of Memoirs of Hadrian
A hybrid novel
Meaningful titles
An era marked by religious turmoil
The power of language
Empirical philosophy
History and its limits in the historical novel
About Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian was first published in 1951 and brought Yourcenar international fame. It recounts the life of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, told from his point of view as he lies on his deathbed. The novel is all the more interesting due to the fact that the historical figure Hadrian wrote an autobiography, but it has not survived until the present day.
Memoirs of Hadrian was written over a period of many years. Yourcenar has explained that she chose to write about Hadrian because he had ruled at a time when the Roman gods were no longer treated with the reverence that they had been in past centuries, but Christianity had not yet taken root. When it was published, it met with considerable success, both critical and popular, and is now considered to be a classic of modern literature.
About Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar was a 20th century French novelist and essayist. She was born in Brussels but became an American citizen in 1947. Moreover, she was awarded both the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, and also had the honor of being the first woman to be elected to the Académie française in 1980.This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including politics, war, and the Roman Empire. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 56-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Marguerite Yourcenar
Presentation of Memoirs of Hadrian
Summary of Memoirs of Hadrian
Character study
Hadrian
Attianus
Plotina
Lucius
Antinous
Arrian
Marcus Aurelius
Analysis of Memoirs of Hadrian
A hybrid novel
Meaningful titles
An era marked by religious turmoil
The power of language
Empirical philosophy
History and its limits in the historical novel
About Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian was first published in 1951 and brought Yourcenar international fame. It recounts the life of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, told from his point of view as he lies on his deathbed. The novel is all the more interesting due to the fact that the historical figure Hadrian wrote an autobiography, but it has not survived until the present day.
Memoirs of Hadrian was written over a period of many years. Yourcenar has explained that she chose to write about Hadrian because he had ruled at a time when the Roman gods were no longer treated with the reverence that they had been in past centuries, but Christianity had not yet taken root. When it was published, it met with considerable success, both critical and popular, and is now considered to be a classic of modern literature.
About Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar was a 20th century French novelist and essayist. She was born in Brussels but became an American citizen in 1947. Moreover, she was awarded both the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, and also had the honor of being the first woman to be elected to the Académie française in 1980.application/pdf1
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This clear and detailed 56-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Marguerite Yourcenar
- Presentation of Memoirs of Hadrian
- Summary of Memoirs of Hadrian
- Character study
- Hadrian
- Attianus
- Plotina
- Lucius
- Antinous
- Arrian
- Marcus Aurelius
- Analysis of Memoirs of Hadrian
- A hybrid novel
- Meaningful titles
- An era marked by religious turmoil
- The power of language
- Empirical philosophy
- History and its limits in the historical novel
About Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian was first published in 1951 and brought Yourcenar international fame. It recounts the life of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, told from his point of view as he lies on his deathbed. The novel is all the more interesting due to the fact that the historical figure Hadrian wrote an autobiography, but it has not survived until the present day.
Memoirs of Hadrian was written over a period of many years. Yourcenar has explained that she chose to write about Hadrian because he had ruled at a time when the Roman gods were no longer treated with the reverence that they had been in past centuries, but Christianity had not yet taken root. When it was published, it met with considerable success, both critical and popular, and is now considered to be a classic of modern literature.
About Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar was a 20th century French novelist and essayist. She was born in Brussels but became an American citizen in 1947. Moreover, she was awarded both the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, and also had the honor of being the first woman to be elected to the Académie française in 1980.
Product details
| ISBN | 9782806281074 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
| Collection | BrightSummaries.com |
| Format | |
| Pages | 56 |
| File size | 2.3 MB |
