ABYSS - Softcover

Yourcenar, Marguerite

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374516669 ISBN 13: 9780374516666

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982

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Book by Marguerite Yourcenar

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"Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it, the author establishes a scene (a road in northern France) and time (the second quarter of the sixteenth century), and engages us in the fate of two cousins. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and poet; the elder, twenty-two-year-old Zeno, has left a seminary to make himself an alchemist-philosopher. The book reads as if an old map--decorated with walled cities, boats on rivers, castles, people, and animals--had come alive . . . As rich as a tapestry." --Naomi Bliven, The New Yorker

"A brilliant tapestry of Western Europe in the Middle Ages, as sharply detailed as a Brueghel." --Michael Kernan, The Washington Post

Reseña del editor:

Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.

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• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0374516669
• ISBN 13: 9780374516666
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384