Antigone (La Petite Vermillon) (French Edition) - Softcover

Jean Anouilh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2710330407 ISBN 13: 9782710330400

Publisher: Table Ronde (Educa Books), 2008

Synopsis

L'Antigone de Sophocle, lue et relue et que je connaissais par c ur depuis toujours, a été un choc soudain pour moi pendant la guerre, le jour des petites affiches rouges. Je l'ai réécrite à ma façon, avec la résonance de la tragédie que nous étions alors en train de vivre. Jean Anouilh. Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative dramas, which exploit fantasy, tragic passion, scenic poetry and cosmic leaps in time and space. Antigone, his best-known play, was performed in 1944 in Nazi-controlled Paris and provoked fierce controversy. In his allegorical tale, Antigone defies the tyrant Creon and is sent to her death. Antigone conveyed to Anouilh's compatriots a covert message of heroic resistance to Nazi occupation; but the author's characterisaation of Creon also seemed to exonerate Marshal Petain and his fellow collaborators. More ambivalent than his ancient model, Sophocles, Anouilh uses Greek myth to explore the disturbing moral dilemmas of our times.

Commentary and notes by Ted Freeman.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Anouilh (1910-87) is one of France's best-known dramatists.  His play, ANTIGONE, was published during the Nazi occcupation of France in 1944 and is his most famous work. 

Language Notes:

Text: French

About this edition

• Publisher: Table Ronde (Educa Books)
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 2710330407
• ISBN 13: 9782710330400
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 122