What is Eternity: World Labyrinth Iii (world Labyrinth Trilogy)
by J
About This Novel
The memoirs of the Yourcenar family, which have been out of print for ten years, are a magnificent triptych that explores history and eternity. The third of a trilogy of autobiographical novels "The Labyrinth of the World", the first female "immortal" of the French Academy, completely subverts the biography genre and continues to be written from the beginning. It slipped from the hand, and like Kafka's "The Castle", it belongs to the great unfinished classics of the 20th century, admired by literary masters such as Pamuk, Wang Xiaobo, Yu Hua, Alai, Chen Ran, Qiu Miaojin, etc., And a model of intellectual writing of the French "New Allegorical School". "What is Eternity" is the last part of Margaret Yourcenar's autobiographical novel trilogy "The Labyrinth of the World". The author tells about his father's life after his mother's death, focusing especially on the intricate emotional entanglement between his mother's close friend Jeanne and his father. He also reviews his childhood and teenage years, and the book ends abruptly with the outbreak of World War I. This book is the one in the trilogy that is most closely integrated with the author's personal experience. Yourcenar also follows her consistent principle of detachment and calmness when describing the close and dearest relatives around her, allowing the people and events in her writing to transcend the limitations of time and geography, reflecting the author's profound thinking about history and time, and a complete subversion of the biography genre. The lingering cloud of war at the end of the work also expresses Yourcenar's deepest worries and most appropriate metaphor for the fate of mankind.
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