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During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people--including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude. ""A Coin in Nine Hands" has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history."--Doris Grumbach, "Los Angeles Times Book Review" "What lingers at the end of "A Coin in Nine Hands" is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him."--Anne Tyler, "The New Republic" "Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic."--Cynthia King, "Houston Post" "Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation."--"Publisher's Weekly" Best known as the author of "Memoirs of Hadrian" and "The Abyss, " Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Academie Francaise.… (plus d'informations)
C'est priser sa vie justement ce qu'elle est, de l'abandonner pour un songe.
Montaigne, liv. III, chap. IV.
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Une première version de Denier du Rêve, quelque peu plus courte, a paru en 1934. [...] [...] Ile des Monts-Déserts, 1959.
Paolo Farina était un provincial encore jeune, suffisamment riche, aussi honnête qu'on peut l'attendre d'un homme vivant dans l'intimité de la Loi, assez aimé dans sa petite bourgade toscane pour que son malheur même ne le fît pas mépriser. [...]
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The only difference between this movie and life was that here the public knew it was being deceived.
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Une lampeé de plus, et ses yeux se fermèrent comme si la nuit, malgré tout, valait mieux que le spectacle d'une salle d'auberge; le point d'appui du mur manqua au dossier de sa chaise; il roula sur le sol sans s'apercevoir qu'il tombait, et il fut heureux comme un mort.
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During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people--including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude. ""A Coin in Nine Hands" has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history."--Doris Grumbach, "Los Angeles Times Book Review" "What lingers at the end of "A Coin in Nine Hands" is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him."--Anne Tyler, "The New Republic" "Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic."--Cynthia King, "Houston Post" "Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation."--"Publisher's Weekly" Best known as the author of "Memoirs of Hadrian" and "The Abyss, " Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Academie Francaise.
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In: Revue Esprit), (1940-) Nouvelle série, No. 278 (11) (Novembre 1959), pp. 621-622. … ; (en ligne),
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