Mémoires d'Hadrien
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This work is at once a novel, history, and poetry. In imagining the memoirs of a great Roman emperor, the author wanted to “recreate from the inside what 19th-century archaeologists did from the outside.” Judging his life as a man and his political work without complacency, Hadrian is well aware that Rome will one day perish, but his Roman realism and his humanism inherited from the Greeks make him feel the importance of thinking and serving until the end. "... I felt responsible for the beauty of the world,“ says this hero, whose problems are those of man throughout the ages: the mortal dangers that threaten civilizations from within and without, the quest for a harmonious balance between happiness and ”august discipline," between intelligence and will.
Cette oeuvre est à la fois roman, histoire et poésie. En imaginant les Mémoires d'un grand empereur romain, l'auteur a voulu "refaire du dedans ce que les archéologues du XIXᵉ siècle ont fait du dehors". Jugeant sans complaisance sa vie d'homme et son oeuvre politique, Hadrien n'ignore pas que Rome finira un jour par périr, mais son réalisme romain et son humanisme hérité des Grecs lui font sentir l'importance de penser et de servir jusqu'au bout. "... Je me sentais responsable de la beauté du monde", dit ce héros dont les problèmes sont ceux de l'homme de tous les temps : les dangers mortels qui du dedans et du dehors menacent lescivilisations, la quête d'un accord harmonieux entre le bonheur et la "discipline auguste", entre l'intelligence et la volonté.
- Poids de l'article : 192 g
- Dimensions : 10.8 x 1.5 x 17.8 cm
This work is at once a novel, history, and poetry. In imagining the memoirs of a great Roman emperor, the author wanted to “recreate from the inside what 19th-century archaeologists did from the outside.” Judging his life as a man and his political work without complacency, Hadrian is well aware that Rome will one day perish, but his Roman realism and his humanism inherited from the Greeks make him feel the importance of thinking and serving until the end. "... I felt responsible for the beauty of the world,“ says this hero, whose problems are those of man throughout the ages: the mortal dangers that threaten civilizations from within and without, the quest for a harmonious balance between happiness and ”august discipline," between intelligence and will.
Cette oeuvre est à la fois roman, histoire et poésie. En imaginant les Mémoires d'un grand empereur romain, l'auteur a voulu "refaire du dedans ce que les archéologues du XIXᵉ siècle ont fait du dehors". Jugeant sans complaisance sa vie d'homme et son oeuvre politique, Hadrien n'ignore pas que Rome finira un jour par périr, mais son réalisme romain et son humanisme hérité des Grecs lui font sentir l'importance de penser et de servir jusqu'au bout. "... Je me sentais responsable de la beauté du monde", dit ce héros dont les problèmes sont ceux de l'homme de tous les temps : les dangers mortels qui du dedans et du dehors menacent lescivilisations, la quête d'un accord harmonieux entre le bonheur et la "discipline auguste", entre l'intelligence et la volonté.
- Poids de l'article : 192 g
- Dimensions : 10.8 x 1.5 x 17.8 cm
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