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L'Œuvre au noir

L'Œuvre au noir

by Marguerite Yourcenar

1991HistoriaFictionNovelaHistoryLesbian authors
3.7
Open Library
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*L'Œuvre au noir* est un roman de 1968 de l'écrivaine belgo-française Marguerite Yourcenar. Son récit est centré sur la vie et la mort de Zénon, médecin, philosophe, scientifique et alchimiste né à Bruges à l'époque de la Renaissance. Le livre a été publié en France en 1968 et a immédiatement rencontré un intérêt populaire ainsi que des critiques élogieuses, obtenant le Prix Femina à l'unanimité l'année de sa publication. Le cinéaste belge André Delvaux l'a adapté au cinéma en 1988.

Themes & subjects

HistoriaFictionNovelaHistoryLesbian authorsAlchemists
First published 1991

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Setting

EuropeEuropa16th centurySiglo XVI20ste eeu20th century

About the author

Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar

1903-06-08 – 1987-12-17

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 …

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Marguerite Yourcenar

First published

1991

Pages

376

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

66

Languages

Spanish, English, Chinese

Publisher

Alfaguara

ISBN

9787542637925

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