Jean Giraudoux
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Language
Français
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Extrait: "C'était pourtant un de ces jours o rien n'arrive, o, comme les poules quand la pluie va durer, sentant que jusqu'au soir la vie sera monotone, les astres occupés d'habitude à la varier sortent sans emploi et voisinent. Il y avait de tout dans le ciel. Il y avait le soleil; il y avait, sous une housse, la lune."
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Series
Language
Español
Description
Jean Giraudoux es un escritor y diplomático francés. Brillante estudiante y soldado condecorado durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, ocupó puestos diplomáticos y administrativos mientras escribía novelas (Suzanne et le Pacifique en 1921, Siegfried et le Limousin en 1922) antes de trasladarse al teatro tras conocer al actor Louis Jouvet, que dirigió e interpretó sus principales obras. Hoy en día es más conocido por su teatro, que incluye obras...
3) Four plays
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Series
Mermaid dramabook volume MD12
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
19) Ondine
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1954]
Language
English
Description
Ondine is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux that tells the story of Hans and Ondine. Hans is a knight-errant who has been sent off on a quest by his betrothed. In the forest he meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man. The subsequent marriage of people from different worlds is of course folly. By turns comic, enchanting, and tragic, Ondine is considered by some to be Giraudoux's...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
Français
Description
The Madwoman of Chaillot is a play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play is in two acts. The story concerns an eccentric woman who lives in Paris and her struggles against the straitlaced authority figures in her life.
