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Alexis, or, The treatise of vain struggle

Alexis, or, The treatise of vain struggle

Marguerite Yourcenar · 1929 · 108 pages

Translations into MacedonianLGBTQ fiction before Stonewall

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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.

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