Les essais de Marguerite Yourcenar : l’éthique en miettes
The Essays of Marguerite Yourcenar: Ethics in Pieces

Summary/Abstract: The Yourcenarian essays, rich and protean texts, implicitly deal with ethics; there we find anethics that does not speak its name. Principles transmitted through stories, values articulatedthrough personal anecdotes, nostalgic looks at the current state of different places visited inthe past dot the collections of Yourcenarian essays. In our study, we identify and analyse thestrategies used by Yourcenar to create a better world. She does not set herself up as a moralist butpresents us with concrete situations where people’s indifference leads to unimaginable disasters.Indeed, her piercing gaze shows us that everything is connected.

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