A Study Of Historical Narration In Yourcenar's Novels

This text regards French contemporary famous authoress Marguerite Yourcenar's novels as the research object .Analyse and study the theme, narrative model and point of view of her novel overallly and deeply .Roaming and death are two main themes running through her novel, And with some perspective quite similar to Taoism doctrine. Although Yourcenar's history bases on the consideration of the historical accuracy, in the final analysis, it is a historical reconstruction. She examines a large amount of historical data, works in an attempt to regain the historical scenes and images, provides a real historical space for the figures , not only to achieve real performance history, but also to manifest figures' real psychology.The figures in her works are fictitious ,but Yourcenar skilful uses these era figures and integrates them to performance a fictitious entity, so these figures are cross-section of the common. In a bid to make the historical fiction have a historical dimension, Yourcenar also participates in some of the manifestations of romantic, this makes her historical novel both have the classical and romantic quality. Yourcenar introduces flexible narrative point of view,whether to narrate in the first-person narration,or that speaks in the third-person narration, as well as the constant shifts of narrative point of view, all achieve a variety of effects to the performance of the novel.