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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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The Abyss

by Marguerite Yourcenar

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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.

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Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) wrote stories, plays, poems, and novels, notably Memoirs of Hadrian. She was the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise.

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Mauguerite Yourenar's imagery and characters of the time of the Black Death have stayed with me for decades. Her beautiful language (translated from the original French) and complex ideas challenged me when I first read The Abyss as a young adult. I have recommended it many times to readers that are interested in religion, faith and power in the Middle Ages.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780374516666
Translator:
Frick, Grace
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
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Frick, Grace
Author:
Yourcenar, Marguerite
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Frick, Grace
Subject:
General
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Literary
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Novels and novellas
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Literature
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General Fiction
Publication Date:
August 1981
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
600
Dimensions:
855x551x93 105
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