Oriental Tales by Marguerite Yourcenar
Oriental Tales by Marguerite Yourcenar. Translated by Alberto Manguel. 1985 Farrar Straus Giroux paperback, later printing (c/r 1938), 147 pages. Yourcenar was a gay French novelist and translator, notably of Virginia Woolf. Much of her work was translated by her partner Grace Frick while Frick was alive. According to the New York Times: "Marguerite Yourcenar, who was born in 1903 and died in 1987, was the last echo of a heroic chorus of European writers that included Thomas Mann and Andre Gide, older men whom she particularly admired and whose work influenced hers. Like them, she was a philosophical writer with a deep and wide culture, a moralist with a taste for historical perspectives and a virtuoso equally at home in novels, stories and essays (she also wrote rather bad plays and poems)." This collection contains twelve stories.
Condition: VG
"Ling had not been born to trot down roads, following an old man who seized the dawn and captured the dusk."
Oriental Tales by Marguerite Yourcenar. Translated by Alberto Manguel. 1985 Farrar Straus Giroux paperback, later printing (c/r 1938), 147 pages. Yourcenar was a gay French novelist and translator, notably of Virginia Woolf. Much of her work was translated by her partner Grace Frick while Frick was alive. According to the New York Times: "Marguerite Yourcenar, who was born in 1903 and died in 1987, was the last echo of a heroic chorus of European writers that included Thomas Mann and Andre Gide, older men whom she particularly admired and whose work influenced hers. Like them, she was a philosophical writer with a deep and wide culture, a moralist with a taste for historical perspectives and a virtuoso equally at home in novels, stories and essays (she also wrote rather bad plays and poems)." This collection contains twelve stories.
Condition: VG
"Ling had not been born to trot down roads, following an old man who seized the dawn and captured the dusk."