"Art" - Classiques et Contemporains (French, French and French Edition) - Softcover

Reza, Yasmina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 221075447X ISBN 13: 9782210754478

Publisher: MAGNARD, 2002

Synopsis

« Mon ami Serge a achetà un tableau. C’est une toile d’environ un mètre soixante sur un mètre vingt, peinte en blanc. Le fond est blanc et si on cligne des yeux, on peut apercevoir de fins liserÃs blancs transversaux. Mon ami Serge est un ami depuis longtemps. »

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From the Back Cover:

Serge has bought a modern painting for a large sum of money. Marc hates it and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides. If your friendship is based on tacit mutual agreement, what happens when one person does something completely different and unexpected? The question is: Are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are? Yasmina Reza's dazzling comedy received the Moliere Award for best play, best production and best author and ran for 18 months at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees, Paris, from October 1994.

Review:

"This is not some irrelevant fringe production; it is a major intervention in the cultural debate of the country by people who are keen to keep the reactionary tides running. It is probably the most sustained attack on modernism yet seen on the British stage, and it represents a stern challenge to the brilliant success story of British contemporary art."--"The Guardian "
"Not only brings to the stage a topical debate, it makes it invigorating, touching and finally disturbing. This dark comedy, translated from the French, in sparkling form, explores its themes through a rift between friends."-"-Financial Times"
"A remarkably wise, witty and intelligent comedy . . . has touched a universal nerve."--"The Times"
"Chic, short, and wickedly, perceptively funny, it's the perfect West End play."--Nick Curtis, "Evening Standard"
""Art," which has been translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, is filled from first curtain to ending with a dazzling array of la

About this edition

• Publisher: MAGNARD
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 221075447X
• ISBN 13: 9782210754478
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128