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Mémoires d'Hadrien

  • Marguerite Yourcenar

3.43

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Mémoires d'Hadrien est un roman historique de l'écrivaine française Marguerite Yourcenar, publié en 1951. Ces pseudo-mémoires de l'empereur romain Hadrien ont immédiatement rencontré un extraordinaire succès international et assuré à son auteur une grande célébrité. Il s’agit d’une œuvre dont le projet remonte à l’adolescence de l’autrice. Yourcenar considérant le projet comme trop ambitieux pour être une œuvre de jeunesse, le décrivait de la trempe de ceux « qu’on ne doit pas oser avant d’avoir dépassé quarante ans ».

Le livre est présenté comme une longue lettre d’un vieil empereur adressée à son petit-fils adoptif et éventuel successeur âgé de 17 ans, Marc Aurèle. L’empereur Hadrien médite et se remémore ses triomphes militaires, son amour de la poésie et de la musique, sa philosophie ainsi que sa passion pour son jeune amant bithynien, Antinoüs.


Memoirs of Hadrian (French: Mémoires d'Hadrien) is a novel by the Belgian-born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian. First published in France in French in 1951 as Mémoires d'Hadrien, the book was an immediate success, meeting with enormous critical acclaim. Although the historical Hadrian wrote an autobiography, it has been lost.

The book takes the form of a letter to Hadrian's adoptive grandson and eventual successor "Mark" (Marcus Aurelius). The emperor meditates on military triumphs, love of poetry and music, philosophy, and his passion for his lover Antinous, all in a manner similar to Gustave Flaubert's "melancholy of the antique world."

Yourcenar noted in her postscript Carnet de note to the original edition, quoting Flaubert, that she had chosen Hadrian as the subject of the novel in part because he had lived at a time when the Roman gods were no longer believed in, but Christianity was not yet established. This intrigued her for what she saw as parallels to her own post-war European world.

Genres

  • Love
  • Fiction
  • Romans
  • Hadrien, empereur romain, 76-138
  • Rome
  • Romans historiques
  • Histoire
  • History
  • Emperors
  • NOVELAS BELGAS
  • NOVELAS
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About the author

  • Marguerite Yourcenar

    1903-06-08 - 1987-12-17

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    17 ratings · 428 works

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    Doubleday

    1957

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    Le livre de poche

    1951-01-01

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    Farrar, Straus and Young

    1954

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    Penguin

    2001

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    W.A.B.

    2008

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    Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy

    1961

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    دار الآداب

    1993

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    دار الآداب

    2021

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    Richter

    1953

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    Χατζηνικολή

    2011

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    Adam

    2003

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    Európa Könyvkiadó

    1984

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    Vaga

    1986

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    Forum

    1985

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    Радуга

    1988

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    Gallimard, Folio

    2019

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    ქარჩხაძის

    2017

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    Rosinante

    2018

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    Humanitas Fiction, Humanitas Fiction Srl

    2021

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    الهيئة العامة لقصور الثقافة

    2016

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    白水社

    1993

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    衛城

    2014

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    1a ed.

    Mundo Actual de Ediciones

    1984

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    Ed. no abreviada

    Círculo de Lectores

    1985

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    Wyd. 2.

    Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy

    1988

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    Livraphone

    May 13, 2003

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    Secker & Warburg ; The Book Society

    1955

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    GALLIMARD

    1974

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    Richter

    1953

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    Albert Bonniers Förlag

    2005

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    Biblioteka Koha Ditore

    2005

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    Biblioteka Vijesti

    2004

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    Gallimard

    1974

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    Plon

    1967

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    Shanghai san lian shu dian

    2011

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    Mediasat

    2004

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    Tabernakul

    2006

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    Einaudi

    2002

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    Fabbri Editori

    2012

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    Lindhardt og Ringhof

    1986

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    1957

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    Ed. rev. et corr. par l'auteur.

    Le Club du Meilleur Livre

    1953

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    Nova Fronteira

    2005

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    Plon

    1955-01-01

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    Nova Knjiga

    2014

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    French & European Pubns

    2000

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    Doubleday Anchor Book/ Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, Inc.

    1954-01-01

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    Farrar, Straus and Young

    1954-01-01

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    Four Square Books

    1966-01-01

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