EAN: 9789052015637

MARGUERITE YOURCENAR AND THE USA - BÉRENGÈRE DE...

Although Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) lived in the US for almost fifty years and became an
American citizen in 1947  few people understand the influence her experiences in the United
States had on her work. Biographers  critics and scholars have wrongly imagined she was
untouched by her life in America - that she remained French to the core  linguistically
isolated  culturally «pure»  that she never took an interest in the country where she lived for
half her life. Drawing on Yourcenar's fiction and non-fiction works as well as on her
voluminous archives at Harvard's Houghton Library  this innovative analysis sheds new light on
Yourcenar's American inspirations and influences. A previously unreleased interview of
Marguerite Yourcenar by the American journalist T. D. Allman  a letter from Marguerite
Yourcenar written in English  an amazing photograph from Life magazine  and entries from her
companion Grace Frick's diaries are among the documents  mostly previously unpublished  which
bring to life the American side of Yourcenar's literature. This study also reveals that
Marguerite Yourcenar  far from being limited to French  had an outstanding mastery of the
English language. It shows how  thanks to her understanding of America and its language  she
became an authentic heir to a long and vivid American tradition: protest literature.

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