A Dream of Stone - Marguerite Yourcenar Growing up

Growing up

Javier Calderon

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A Dream of Stone - Marguerite Yourcenar Growing upA selection of texts on art and artists by the Belgian French novelist and essayist Marguerite Yourcenar Best known for her seminal novel Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), an imagined autobiography of the Roman emperor, Yourcenar brings the same depth of inquiry and inventive speculation to her lyric prose on art and artists in this newest title in the ekphrasis series. In these five jewel like essays, Yourcenar meditates on the decay of time, the desire