Dreams and Destinies, the Rosetta Stone of Marguerite Yourcenar's canon, is an intimate journal of her dreams. In Dreams and Destinies Yourcenar has provided us with the most daring, yet least conventional form of autobiography, a form that allows the reader to view her life refracted through the poetic sensibility of her own sleeping mind. In recording her dream life, Yourcenar wanders through a picture gallery of the soul, pausing before ruined cathedrals filled with candles, dark ravines that hold dead bodies, and still reflecting pools located deep inside soaring gothic churches. Her dreams are populated by men, women, and children as well as animals and mythical creatures. Available for the first time in English in the way that she intended upon her death, Dreams and Destinies is a reminder from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century that the dreams we create are with us forever.

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Marguerite Yourcenar is the author of many books including Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss. She was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française. Donald Flanell Friedman is a professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Winthrop University. He lives in South Carolina.

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Book Title: Dreams and Destinies
Authors: Donald Flanell Friedman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11342-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-21289-6Published: 30 October 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-11342-9Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 126
Topics: Literature, general

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