Marguerite Yourcenar

Mémoires d'Hadrien is een historische en psychologische roman van de Frans-Belgische auteur Marguerite Yourcenar. De roman heeft de vorm van een denkbeeldige autobiografie van de Romeinse keizer Hadrianus.

Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grace tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love …

The story of the fate of two cousins in sixteenth century northern France. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and a poet. The elder, twenty-two-year-old Zeno, has left the seminary to make himself an alchemist-philosopher.