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Memoirs of Hadrian

by Marguerite Yourcenar
📅 1951 🏢 Edhasa 📄 320 pages ⏱️ ~5 h 52 min read 🔖 ISBN 9788432224119
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Emperor Hadrian reviews his life in a long letter to Marcus Aurelius. One of the peaks of historical fiction.

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Yourcenar did something that seems impossible: get inside the head of a second-century Roman emperor and make it sound real. The prose is dense, reflective, unforgiving of the impatient reader, and Hadrian emerges as a character of complexity that few historical novels have matched. Not a beach read, but for those seeking a demanding and rewarding literary experience it is hard to find anything better in the genre.

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