Like Yourcenar’s previous works, The Abyss re-creates an era, with its particular modes of thinking and being. Esente da qualsiasi restauro o ritocco di colore. (vedi fotografia). NARRATIVA E SAGGISTICA. Marguerite Yourcenar’s excellence in this genre was announced by Hadrian’s Memoirs; The Abyss confirms her reputation. Marguerite Yourcenar's funeral plate. The epitaph, written in French, is from The Abyss: «Plaise à Celui qui Est peut-être de dilater le coeur de l'homme à la mesure de toute la vie.», which can be translated to "May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure." As I already mentioned in my introduction, I enjoyed reading The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar immensely – both times. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. LIBRI ANTICHI E DA COLLEZIONE. Stato di conservazione: buone condizioni con normale usura del tempo. (Yourcenar is an anagram of her real name à particule, de Crayencour.) The abyss by Yourcenar, Marguerite. Marguerite Yourcenar. Yourcenar's anecdotal style is memo- The Abyss is one of the two books that haunted Marguerite Yourcenar during her whole life, the other one being the famous "Memoirs of Hadrian". MARGUERITE YOURCENAR'S THE ABYSS 173 Before the end of the sixteenth century, chroniclers had al-ready described in horrible detail the breaking apart of the western Church into diverse national and territorial churches, religious cults, and sects. Marguerite Yourcenar, born Cleenwerck de Crayencour (1903 - 1987), spent the first ten years of her life in the family estate, at the top of Mont-Noir, in Saaint-Jans-Cappel (Nord department) . Marguerite Yourcenar was born in 1903 into a patrician Franco-Belgian family. The Abyss (French: L'Œuvre au noir) is a novel by the Belgian-French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Its narrative centers on the life and death of Zeno, a physician, philosopher, scientist and alchemist born in Bruges during the Renaissance era. Unfortunately, it seems that with the exception of her chief novel Memoirs of Hadrian her work has fallen into oblivion in the Anglophone world and … Her mother died of puerperal fever shortly after her birth, and she was brought up by her father, a great reader and traveler, who taught her Latin and Greek and read the French classics with her. Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss.Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins. Zona Carpe Diem. Zenon, the Hero of the Abyss, is much closer to the author as he shares with her the passion for the unknown countries of the soul and the spirit.