Fiche de lecture L'Oeuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar

A reading guide to Yourcenar's Renaissance novel The Abyss (L'Oeuvre au noir), published in 2021. It summarises the story of Zeno, a physician, alchemist and thinker who travels across sixteenth-century Europe, and it outlines the book's setting, characters and themes. Its focus is on the struggle for freedom of thought in an age of religious and political danger. It is a study aid rather than a work of Yourcenar's own.