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HADRIAN'S MEMOIRS, by Marguerite Yourcenar, was a cool, cleanly written novel in the form of a letter from Roman Emperor Hadrian to his adopted grandson, Marcus Aurelius. It made most of the year's best-selling historicals seem like blowsy farces...
...French Author Yourcenar shuns sex and sadism, keeps the defenseless slave maidens in the background and the Saturnalia under control. She allows the sick and aging Emperor Hadrian, ruler of the Western world, to tell his own story in a letter to his 17-year-old adopted grandson, Marcus Aurelius. Hadrian enjoys a good orgy from time to time as much as the next Roman, and he practices the empire's fashionable perversions. But he is far more deeply interested in the uses of power and the nature of the soul...
Much of this view of life and death is as old as the Stoics and as new as the Existentialists. Where Jean Giono differs from both Marcus Aurelius and Jean-Paul Sartre is in his addiction to verbal color and sensuous imagery. The Horseman on the Roof is an orgy of symbolic corpses, stinks, carrion crows and flesh-eating nightingales, interspersed with involved philosophical breedings and brisked up with epigrams ("Cavalrymen like women to scream"; "I'm afraid of grocers when they have guns"). But. like most contemporary philosophical novelists, Giono makes no real effort to be clear...
Divorced. By Olivia de Havilland, 36, cinemactress who has twice won Oscars (To Each His Own, The Heiress): Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, 54, hot-tempered one-shot novelist (Delilah); on their sixth wedding anniversary; in Los Angeles. To back up her charge of "incompatibility" Olivia explained to the court that Goodrich 1) never told her he had had four previous wives, 2) had not worked since their marriage, 3) "took exception to something I said . . . said he would kill me." Awarded custody of two-year-old Benjamin, Olivia sighed: "I couldn't bear the idea of divorce...
...There still are a few. * Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein...