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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.

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 the second part of the trilogy of the autobiographical novel "The Labyrinth of the World", the first female "immortal" of the French Academy. 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". "Northern Archives: The Labyrinth of the World II" is the second part of the autobiographical novel trilogy "The Labyrinth of the World" by Margaret Yourcenard, the famous French writer and the first female "immortal" of the French Academy. It is a memory mainly based on the paternal family history, telling the life of his grandfather, father and half-brother. "Northern Archives", "Reverent Memories" and "What is Eternity" together form the "Labyrinth of the World" trilogy. Yourcenar traces the mother's family and the father's family as far back as possible, detailing the decline of the two families. In the end, there was only one woman left in the two families. This woman had no heirs, changed her surname, and chose the path of breaking away from the family. The fate of a family symbolizes the fate of mankind. Even though history has the power to serve as evidence and reference, human beings always repeat mistakes, and tragedy seems unstoppable.