The dark brain of Piranesi and other essays / Marguerite Yourcenar ; translated by Richard Howard in collaboration with the author

Author:: Yourcenar, Marguerite
Uniform Title:: Sous bénéfice d'inventaire. English
Published:: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1984]
Copyright Date:: ©1984
Physical Description:: 231 pages ; 22 cm

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Contents:

Faces of history in the Historia Augusta -- Agrippa di'Aubigné and Les tragiques -- Ah, mon beau château -- The black brain of Piranesi -- Selma Lagerlöf, epic storyteller -- A critical introduction to Cavafy -- Humanism and occultism in Thomas Mann.

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Yourcenar, Marguerite—Translations into English

ISBN:

0374177090

Note:

"Humanism and occultism in Thomas Mann translated by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author."
Translation of: Sous bénéfice d'inventaire.

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