Against the grain

by Marguerite Yourcenar

  • Novels
  • Historical fiction

This is a title associated with Yourcenar's translated work, and the catalogue gives little detail about it. It may be an English edition of one of her novels, probably the Renaissance novel better known as The Abyss, in which a physician and thinker named Zeno moves across sixteenth-century Europe, questioning religious and political authority. If so, it is a serious, patient story about freedom of mind in a dangerous age.

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