Yourcenar’s Journey to the East: How a “Belgian” Author Made Her Way into China

peer reviewed ; Marguerite Yourcenar, through her many roles as a novel and novella writer, essayist, playwright, poet, translator, and literary critic, is undoubtedly one of the most influential Belgium-born women in the 20th century. Having started writing in the 1930s, the outstanding quality of her work gradually enhanced her visibility so that she finally became the first woman elected within the prestigious Académie française, in 1980. This recognition brought her under the spotlight in the West, but also overseas, notably in China. There, the interest in Yourcenar began to grow with the... Mehr ...