5/25/2023 0 Comments Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar![]() ![]() The internal world that Alexis describes is one of fundamental binary oppositions (instinct vs intellect, pleasure vs. The letter is a confession in which Alexis recounts his lifelong struggle to accept his homosexuality. In more accurate terms, the book is an epistolary novella, taking the form of an extended letter written by the title character to his estranged wife, Monique. It seems safe to assume this work is now largely forgotten, with copies being produced by FSG on demand (the last page indicates that my copy was printed on 29 November 2016-the date I ordered it). The book was not published in English translation until 1984, well after the success of Memoirs of Hadrian. Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion.Īlexis, or the Treatise of Vain Struggle, published in 1929, was Marguerite Yourcenar’s first novel. ![]()
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