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Written in the form of a letter from the protagonist, Alexis, to Monique, his wife, this novel reflects on the incompatibility of art and bourgeois life as the hero explains why he must leave the marriage to serve the demands of art and pleasure
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It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love."The rich, many colored subtlety of her great novels -- Memoirs of Dadrian; The Abyss; Alexis; Coup de Grace; and others -- is reminiscent of their intricate tapestries, while her sublime mystical appreciation of Nature and its beauty evokes the golden age of landscape painting in the Low Countries." - The Paris Review
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