The abyss
Original title: L'Œuvre au noir
Translated by Grace Frick earliest edition we have, 1976 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976 374 pages
*L'Œuvre au noir* est un roman de 1968 de l'écrivaine belgo-française Marguerite Yourcenar. Son récit est centré sur la vie et la mort de Zénon, médecin, philosophe, scientifique et alchimiste né à Bruges à l'époque de la Renaissance. Le livre a été publié en France en 1968 et a immédiatement rencontré un intérêt populaire ainsi que des critiques élogieuses, obtenant le Prix Femina à l'unanimité l'année de sa publica...
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