Volume 42, Number 16 · October 19, 1995
The Time of Her Life
By P.N. Furbank
That Mighty Sculptor, Time
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 229 pp., $22.00; $12.00 (paper)
How Many Years
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Maria Louise Ascher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 382 pp., $27.50
A Blue Tale and Other Stories
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Alberto Manguel
University of Chicago Press, 82 pp., $14.95
Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life
by Josyane Savigneau, translated by Joan E. Howard
University of Chicago Press, 527 pp., $25.00
When Henry James's friend Sarah Orne Jewett sent him a copy of her just completed historical novel The Tory Lover, written five years after the Maine stories of The Country of the Pointed Firs, he implored her: 'Go back to the dear country of the Pointed Firs, come back to the palpable present-intimate that throbs responsive, and that wants, misses, needs you.'
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