A Coin in Nine Hands : A Novel - Denier du rêve

Marguerite Yourcenar

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux

1986

184 páginas

6h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780374519537

During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people-including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a would-be assassin of Mussolini. The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude.

"A Coin in Nine Hands has . . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history."-Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times Book Review.

"What lingers at the end of A Coin in Nine Hands is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the so-called 'common people' revolving all around him."-Anne Tyler, The New Republic.

"Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel. . . . The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus. Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic."-Cynthia King, Houston Post.

"Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation."-Publisher's Weekly.

Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenar (1903 - 1987) achieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française.

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O pano de fundo é um atentado a vida de um ditador italiano. A partir disso, a autora nos apresenta a história de várias personagens, cada qual a seu tempo, de forma independente. Algumas personagem se encontram pois suas histórias se entrecruzam, outras, devido um mero caso. A ideia do romance me convoca, mas o resultado não me empolgou.