Présentation de l'éditeur
Après Sophocle, Jean Anouilh reprend le mythe d'Antigone. Fille d'Oedipe et de Jocaste, la jeune Antigone est en révolte contre la loi humaine qui interdit d'enterrer le corps de son frère Polynice. Présentée sous l'Occupation, en 1944, l'Antigone d'Anouilh met en scène l'absolu d'un personnage en révolte face au pouvoir, à l'injustice et à la médiocrité.
Peter Brook
Anouilh is not just a poet, but a poet of words - acted, of scenes-set, of players- performing."
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Book Description
The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new King of Thebes. Antigone defies the law, sealing her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilh's Antigone was seen by the French as theatre of the resistance and by the Germans as an affirmation of authority.
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About the author
Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910 - October 3, 1987) was a French dramatist.
He was born in Bordeaux and had Basque ancestry. He started his career as a jobbing writer in the film industry. In 1931, his first play, L'Hermine, flopped, but he followed it up with a string of others. Anouilh was an extremely private man, and very little is known about his private life except for what can be deduced from reading his plays. It is known that he married Monelle Valentin, an actress. He has a very long career, and is not associated with one specific school of dramatic thought. His plays are vastly different from each other. Some are classic farces with dark twists, some adaptations of Greek myths, and some explorations of life and love.
Jean Anouilh died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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