The adventurer in some novels

This research on the character of the adventurer approaches it in the light of the works of three writers who have strongly marked the literary history of the 20th century: Henry de Montherlant, André Malraux and Pierre Mac Orlan. By the term "adventurer", we want to show that he or she is that man or woman particularly animated by curiosity and the taste for risk that pushes him or her towards elsewhere in search of happiness, of a lost paradise. It is a character who regrets the past, who has a utopian conception of an ideal and magnificent society, who refuses the banal daily life, who wants to satisfy a curiosity at the same time futile and fertile. In order to make this work effective, we put six novels in parallel by drawing on Philippe Hamon's semiological method of reading the character from the point of view of signs in order to identify his ideology. However, given the diversity of the works submitted to our study, the semiology will operate in the comparative field of Pierre Brunel et alii in order to bring out the relationships of kinship or not between these texts in order to appreciate them and to draw out their specificities.