I feel like I have read this novel a few different times. And that’s not exactly the fault of Marguerite Yourcenar, nor is it an indictment of the novel’s quality, but this novel is a lot like the other novels it’s a lot like. So what is this novel? It’s a fictionalized memoir written by the Roman emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius. The format is in the form of a long letter and is broken into large chunks representing different parts of his […]