Alexis

Alexis - Paperback

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Alexis - Paperback

Alexis - Paperback

by Marguerite Yourcenar
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by Marguerite Yourcenar (Author), Walter C. Jr. Kaiser (Translator)

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
Number of Pages: 128
Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: March 22, 2006
ISBN9780374519063
Author Marguerite Yourcenar
PublisherFarrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages128
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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