Landscape

For the new year

– Do you want to live together for many years, loving each other, without having children? I approve of you with all my heart. Tell me the reasons. – To have no remorse … – Good. Specify better. – Not to add to the pain and shame of the world. So that there isn’t someone Continue

Forest

Already in the time of Tacitus, the barbarians of Germany looked to the forests of the past as the cradle of their race, just like the myth of Arcadia, in Virgil’s Aeneid, turns to a remote era in which men were born from oaks. Tacitus reminds us that certain woods were the places where “the Continue

Marguerite Yourcenar

NOTEBOOKS This book was conceived, then written, in whole or in part, in various forms, between 1924 and 1929, between my twenties and twenty-five years. Those manuscripts have all been destroyed. They deserved to be. Found in a volume of Flaubert’s correspondence, much read, much emphasized around 1927, the unforgettable sentence: “When the gods were Continue