Seven of Yourcenar's most important critical essays, on subjects ranging from the Historia Augusta to Piranesi's engravings. Essential to the understanding of the searching and remarkably informed spirit of this protean writer.
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In one essay French novelist Yourcenar contemplates Roman decadence. In another she traces one chateau's history through its successive inhabitants, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Her title piece concerns Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons, a series of grotesque engravings. PW stated that these seven essays are "united by the author's astute powers of observation, her forceful writing and her open embrace of life's vicissitudes." December
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Text: English, French (translation)
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yourcenar her usual brilliant self.the actual essay on piranesi contains erratic confusion of the term "engraving".an engraving employs a burin(graver).the carceri are etchings(aqua forte in french)and employ acid(dutch mordant or iron of perchloride or a strong solution of nitric).the burin might be emplyed to accenuate shadows(as in some of rembrandts etchings).my impression is that the french term gravure,which includes etching was translated into english as engraving.not quite the same.
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