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Marguerite Yourcenar: A Reluctant Celebrity

The first woman to be elected to the Académie Française and a close contender for a Nobel Prize, Marguerite Yourcenar remained characteristically indifferent to public life and professional honors. This program—shot on location at her hermitage on Mount Desert Island a year before her death in 1987—profiles the life and literature of a renowned novelist, poet, and essayist who viewed the world and even herself with a curious detachment. Best known for her historical novels such as Memoirs of Hadrian, excerpts of which are read by actress Janet Suzman, Yourcenar displays her remarkable range by reading lyrics from her offbeat Blues et Gospels. (58 minutes)



 
    

Item#: BVL10057
Copyright date: ©1986




     
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Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write
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Madame Bovary

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Colette: Bella Vista

A very stylish production, based on Colette's novel, and set in a country inn where the author is herself a visitor. The focus is less on what happens than on how, and with what, and to whom, all seen through the discerning eye of France's greatest w...(more details)
 
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Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past

Withdrawing from the glittering high society he had so avidly courted, Marcel Proust spent the last decade of his life in virtual isolation, writing and revising Remembrance of Things Past. This program focuses on an intriguing dramatization of part ...(more details)
 
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