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100 1 $aYourcenar, Marguerite.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50014612
240 10 $aShort stories.$kSelections.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95031902
245 12 $aA blue tale and other stories /$cMarguerite Yourcenar ; foreword by Josyane Savigneau ; translated by Alberto Manguel.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axxxi, 82 pages ;$c20 cm
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505 00 $tForeword /$rJosyane Savigneau --$tA Blue Tale --$tThe First Evening --$tAn Evil Spell.
520 $aThese three stories, the last of Yourcenar's fiction to be translated into English, were written between 1927 and 1930 when the author was in her mid-twenties. "A Blue Tale" is a sensual, fantastic attempt to describe reality in tones of blue. Drawing on an ancient oral tradition, Yourcenar offers a tale of the credulity of men who are lured by riches - in this case, sapphires.
520 8 $a"The First Evening" was originally written, though left unfinished, by Yourcenar's father, Michel de Crayencour. He exerted a strong influence on his daughter's life and on the early stages of her writing career. Yourcenar revised and completed this tale depicting a jaded French intellectual and man-of-the-world whose wedding night is disrupted by shocking news, and it was published under her name after her father's death.
520 8 $a"The Evil Spell," like Memoirs of Hadrian, is set in the Mediterranean, a physical and spiritual place that fired Yourcenar's literary imagination. The tale reveals Yourcenar's fascination with the occult, a realm she would find herself attracted to more than once later on - most notably at a crucial turning point in The Abyss.
600 10 $aYourcenar, Marguerite$vTranslations into English.
700 1 $aManguel, Alberto.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80013377
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