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COUP DE GRÂCE (151 pp.) - Marguerite Yourcenar - Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...than men have won the prestigious Prix Femina (awarded by an all-woman jury), and more than 60 novels by women were thought to have enough merit to become candidates for the major literary awards. In a class by themselves are the prizewinning historical studies-51-year-old Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian's Memoirs (TIME, Nov. 29) and 38-year-old Zoé Oldenbourg's The Cornerstone (TIME, Jan. 10). But, like Colette, few of the ladies write historicals or go to libraries for material. They supply their own, proving themselves much bolder practitioners of the entre...
Hadrian's Memoirs, by Marguerite Yourcenar. A first-rate novel about the great soldier-emperor who first called Rome eternal (TIME...
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...
...Author Yourcenar's portrait is chiseled in stone. An expertly researched novel, it has won two literary prizes in France. What it lacks in pace, it makes up in stateliness and thoughtful writing about the man who first called Rome eternal and did his share to make...