Devoted Memories: Labyrinth of the World I (labyrinth of the World Trilogy)
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"Even though he knew that human beings are a mixture of flaws and virtues, he still believed in the future happiness of mankind." The memoirs of the Yourcenar family, which have been out of print for ten years, are a magnificent triptych that explores history and eternity. It is one of the trilogy of autobiographical novels "The Labyrinth of the World", the first female "immortal" of the Academy of France. Literary masters such as Pamuk, Wang Xiaobo, Yu Hua, Alai, Chen Ran, Qiu Miaojin, etc. Are the models of intellectual writing of the French "New Fable School". "Reverent Memories" is the first part of Margaret Yourcenar's autobiographical novel trilogy "The Labyrinth of the World". The author starts from his own birth and traces the history of his mother's family with a panoramic description, focusing on his two uncles Octave and Fernand, whom he has never met, and his mother Fernand, who died of puerperal fever. Yourcenar used a large number of oral materials, letters, photos, aristocratic family yearbooks and leftover items to construct a complete picture of his mother's family. He traced the roots as far back as possible to the longest past, and used a calm and objective writing style to make the images of each ancestor vivid on the page. She is not content to depict various characters in the family, but tries to clarify the theme of "eternity" through this, condensing the family that has been inherited from generation to generation into a symbol in the macroscopic time and space of the world. Standing outside of time and space, she observes with a cold eye, describes the destiny of mankind, and reveals the eternal laws of history.
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