08-01-2008, 01:16 PM
Quote:(maybe I should finally read the book of Marguerite Yourcenar)Yes, yes, yes. She's one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century - someone of the stature of Thomas Mann, Pirandello, T.S. Eliot, Marquez, and Naipaul. Although her interpretation of Hadrian is outdated (according to Birley), it is really a convincing portrait of - well, of a human being, with its good and bad aspects.