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Author
Series
Collection Soleil volume 248
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
Français
Description
By creating the character of Zénon, alchemist and doctor of the 16th century, Marguerite Yourcenar, the author of the Memoirs of Hadrian, does not only tell the tragic destiny of an extraordinary man. It's a whole era that lives again in its infinite richness, as well as in its acrid and brutal reality; a contrasting world where the Middle Ages and the Renaissance clash, and where modern times are already emerging, a world from which Zeno came, but...