'Le Cours des devises' in Marguerite Yourcenar's 'Memoires d'Hadrien.'

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Marguerite Yourcenar's 'Memoires d'Hadrien' portrays the emperor gradually coming to accept the uncertainty of uncontrollable circulation in the form of mail, gossip, and literature. The novel mostly supports Hadrian's self-image, although the author also includes some indications of its inadequacy. The rigidity of inscriptions and formulas is contrasted with the vitality and unruliness of language in circulation.

Narration (Rhetoric), Narration, Memoires d'Hadrien (Book), Yourcenar, Marguerite

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Pascal Quignard et la pensee mythique

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Mythic thinking is discussed in relation to the work of Pascal Quignard. The mythic dimension of Quinard's work appears in two main modalities: one involving rewriting or meditation on myths of various cultural traditions, especially the myth of Orpheus, and the second involving a Levi-Straussian structural analysis of myths. The article text is in French.

France, French fiction, Mythological allusions, Quignard, Pascal

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