La loi au service des hommes dans la vision d’Hadrien
chez Marguerite Yourcenar
How Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian Sees the Law Serving Human Interests
Author(s): Rémy PoignaultSubject(s): French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Hadrian; law; humanity; political realism; rewriting Antiquity;
Summary/Abstract: Hadrian, like other characters of Marguerite Yourcenar, distrusts the law, but he strives to improvepeople’s lives by trying to adapt the law to the spirit of the times and to achieve harmony evenif there is always a gap between the ideal and reality.
Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
- Issue Year: 49/2025
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 27-38
- Page Count: 12
- Language: French