MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN BY MARGUIRETE YOURCENAR (PART ONE)- BOOK REVIEW
Hello, dear readers! I'm back with another book review and recommendation. Memories of Hadrian by Belgian French author Marguerite Yourcenar is an extraordinary novel about Roman emperor Hadrian. Published in 1951, it won its author critical acclaim and was an immediate success. Originally written and published in French, under the title Mémoires d'Hadrien, it was translated to English in 1954 by Grace Frick, who was not only Marguirete's lifelong translator but also her lifelong partner. Belgian born Marguerite Yourcenar became an USA citizen in 1954, the same year an English version of her novel was published. Marguerite was quite an established writer, the w inner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize , and the first woman elected to the French Academy in 1980. In 1965, she was even nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature. Surely, this novel had something to do with her success. It is said that Marguerite envisioned this novel when she was about t