Espejos y reflejos en la obra de Marguerite Yourcernar

Abstract

Yourcenar's employ of frequent mirror images is, in its inner meaning, to reflect the universe. We can group them in images corresponding to the Democrite's universe or alchemic mirror -where man is reflex of the universe-, and images of mirrors reflecting time and history. Some of them reflect the future time while others reflect present or past. There are sorne mirrors that comprise the whole temporal range. Sometimes the image of mirror prescinds of the material mirror in arder to reflect the universe over a real person or a portrait. Yourcenar mirrors are tarnished, dimmed, broken or made of dark water and reflect the universe rather than the one who is looking at them.