This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir ndeg933, dated November 2024.
“The sleeper assembles images as the poet assembles words.” This was Marguerite Yourcenar's conviction. To harness the creative power of dreams, the woman who was to become the first female academic even forced herself, between the ages of 28 and 33, to wake up at dawn to capture her dreams.
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