| Author/Contributor(s): | Yourcenar, Marguerite ; Kaiser, Walter C, Jr |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl |
| Date: | 10/01/1985 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love.
"The rich, many colored subtlety of her great novels -- Memoirs of Dadrian; The Abyss; Alexis; Coup de Grace; and others -- is reminiscent of their intricate tapestries, while her sublime mystical appreciation of Nature and its beauty evokes the golden age of landscape painting in the Low Countries." - The Paris Review