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Title: La Machine Infernale
Publisher: Librairie Generale Francaise, LGF
Publication Date: 1934
Language: French
ISBN 10: 2253009164
ISBN 13: 9782253009160
Edition: 1 Edition.
Condition: Good
Weight: 0.201 pounds

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Ob�issant � l’oracle, Œdipe r�sout l’�nigme du Sphinx, tue son p�re et �pouse sa m�re. La peste s’abat sur Th�bes qui a couronn� un inceste et un parricide. Quand un berger d�voile la v�rit�, la machine infernale des dieux explose. Œdipe se cr�ve les yeux et sa m�re se pend.
S’inspirant du th��tre de Sophocle, Cocteau redonne vie aux grandes figures grecques : Œdipe, Jocaste, Antigone et Cr�on. Il philosophe en virtuose. Non, l’homme n’est pas libre. Il na�t aveugle et les dieux r�glent sa destin�e. M�me le h�ros, celui qui sort du rang, doit se soumettre. Ce grand texte dit tout sur l’homme avec infiniment d’humour et de po�sie.

Notes et commentaires de G�rard Lieber.

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Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) est un �crivain, dramaturge, cin�aste et peintre fran�ais. N� � Maisons-Laffitte au sein d’une famille ais�e, il c�toie d�s l’�ge adulte les figures litt�raires et artistiques de premier plan comme Proust et Stravinski. Artiste complet, dandy parisien et touche-�-tout de g�nie, il se m�le � toutes les avant-gardes: dada�stes, futuristes et cubistes. Il est notamment l’auteur et r�alisateur du film Le Sang d’un po�te (1930) et de la pi�ce de th��tre La Machine infernale (1934). Il entre � l’Acad�mie fran�aise en 1955 et meurt en 1963.

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