"We Met in Paris"
Author | : Joan E Howard |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780826274045 |
ISBN-13 | : 0826274048 |
Rating | : 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented. It contains a great deal of new information that will disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar and may even shock some of her scholars and fans.