Folio: Oeuvre Au Noir (Series #A36798) (Paperback)

from dragonflyy419

Marguerite Yourcenar wove a story like few I have read in her novel The Abyss. The novel follows the journey through life of the fictional philosopher and physician Zeno in 16th century Europe. The novel was originally written in french and was translated into english by Grace Frick in collaborat...

from AlanSkinner

I read this over 20 years ago and it still remains strongly in my head.Yourcenar's prose is not the delicious sort, delighting the reader with inventive wordplay or imagery that creates new visions of the world by a new interoperation of the senses. Her prose is controlled, at times almost surgic...

from AlanSkinner

I read this over 20 years ago and it still remains strongly in my head.Yourcenar's prose is not the delicious sort, delighting the reader with inventive wordplay or imagery that creates new visions of the world by a new interoperation of the senses. Her prose is controlled, at times almost surgic...