Marguerite Yourcenar s’est construite. Savigneau (literary editor for Le Monde) struggles to establish the facts in a life of artful illusion. C’est au cœur du personnage et de l’œuvre. Je mourrai comme ils meurent », écrivait Marguerite Yourcenar à trente ans. Good.

Much of Savigneau's study consists of the mundane: domestic arrangements (including shopping lists) at the Maine summer house that Yourcenar shared with Frick; Yourcenar's travels, lectures, and habits of composition. The thesis of this meticulous and admiring biography is that Yourcenar (b. Crayencour, 1903-87) was both inventor and invention, creating her life along with her fiction.

Be the first to ask a question about Marguerite Yourcenar Personnage principal d'un roman patiemment construit - sa vie -, Marguerite Yourcenar, première femme à entrer à l'Académie française, a traversé le siècle avec une liberté singulière, aventureuse, obstinée. Ce n’est pas pour rien que sa biographie, écrite par Josyane Savigneau il y a 30 ans chez Gallimard et qui fait toujours autorité aujourd’hui, avait pour titre L’invention d’une vie. Inventing a pseudonym (an anagram of her given name) was for Yourcenar one more gesture of freedom from a childhood of losses that began with the death of her mother (while giving birth to Yourcenar) and that went on to include the loss of both a beloved nursemaid and of her country and home during WW I: a childhood spent with a wealthy and devoted but profligate and aging father. The spine may show signs of wear. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. Titre de livre: Marguerite Yourcenar : L'Invention d'une vie (Josyane Savigneau). Throw a presidential campaign into the mix, and even the most assured woman could begin to crack under the pressure. With no formal education, Yourcenar taught beginning French at Sarah Lawrence and found acclaim in the publication of her novel The Memoirs of Hadrian (1952).

I remember I was intriqued by the New Yorker review because it had spoken of Yourcenar as an outcaFinally finished reading Josyane Savigneau's biography of Marguerite Yourcenar. by See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993) I don't remember which magazine had originally prompted me to read about Yourcenar (I think it was the New Yorker I read on the train ride to New York City a couple of weeks ago) but absolutely enjoyed Savigneau's biography of Yourcenar. Finally finished reading Josyane Savigneau's biography of Marguerite Yourcenar. Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. An engrossing memoir as well as a lively treatise on what extraordinary grace under extraordinary pressure looks like. More life reflections from the bestselling author on themes of societal captivity and the catharsis of personal freedom. It is little wonder that Yourcenar, whose own early past receded so quickly into personal legend, would one day describe her writing as the "passionate reconstitution , at once dMarguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. I had never yet read any of her material and to learn that she was also the first woman championed into the Academie Français was also interesting. June 1st 1993 To create our list,...Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. After all, it takes a special kind of moxie to survive being the first African-American FLOTUS—and not only survive, but thrive.

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