A Blue Tale and Other Stories Hardcover - 1995
by Marguerite Yourcenar; Alberto Manguel (Translator)
Published to great acclaim in France in 1993, this collection is not only a delight for Marguerite Yourcenar fans but a welcome port of entry for any reader not yet familiar with the author's lengthier, more demanding works. This collection includes three stories written between 1927 and 1930 when the author was in her mid-20s.
From the rear cover
These three stories, the last of Yourcenar's fiction to be translated into English, were written between 1927 and 1930 when the author was in her mid-twenties. "A Blue Tale" is a sensual, fantastic attempt to describe reality in tones of blue. Drawing on an ancient oral tradition, Yourcenar offers a tale of the credulity of men who are lured by riches - in this case, sapphires. "The First Evening" was originally written, though left unfinished, by Yourcenar's father, Michel de Crayencour. He exerted a strong influence on his daughter's life and on the early stages of her writing career. Yourcenar revised and completed this tale depicting a jaded French intellectual and man-of-the-world whose wedding night is disrupted by shocking news, and it was published under her name after her father's death. "The Evil Spell", like Memoirs of Hadrian, is set in the Mediterranean, a physical and spiritual place that fired Yourcenar's literary imagination. The tale reveals Yourcenar's fascination with the occult, a realm she would find herself attracted to more than once later on - most notably at a crucial turning point in The Abyss.
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- Title A Blue Tale and Other Stories
- Author Marguerite Yourcenar; Alberto Manguel (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 114
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 1995-11
- ISBN 9780226965307 / 0226965309
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.84 x 5.78 x 0.54 in (19.91 x 14.68 x 1.37 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Yourcenar, Marguerite - Translations into
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95014507
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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