Pour une morale de la solitude : « Pasiphaé » de Montherlant
For a Moral of the Solitude: Montherlant’s “Pasiphaé”

Summary/Abstract: If Racine gives the celebrity to Phèdre in and through the classical tragedy, Montherlant chooses her mother, Pasiphaé, as the main character of his dramatic poem. Trapped in her double condition, divine and human at the same time, the queen of Crete has to face a serious moral crises owed to an act she desires and which is forbidden by the bourgeois moral. As a noble representative of this kingdom of special human beings, she takes refuge in solitude and justifies in a tragical manner her reproachful act through an original moral of solitude.

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