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Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)

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Jean Anouilh was born on June 23, 1910, in France. Anouilh studied law as a teenager and worked briefly in advertising. He soon became aware of his strong attraction to the theatre and became one of France's foremost playwrights and screenwriters. Anouilh's works are noted for their theatrical vis mere conventions. His plays, many of which are bleak dramas, feature characters facing highly moral dilemmas. He uses such conventions as flashbacks, role reversals, and play-within-a-play to achieve dramatic effects. Anouilh received a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for his play Waltz of the Toreadors and a Tony award for Thieves Carnival. Other well-known works include Antigone, Eurydice and the film Pattes Blanches. Anouilh suffered a heart attack and died in 1987. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Jean Anouilh en 1968

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Værker af Jean Anouilh

Antigone (1944) — Forfatter — 1,512 eksemplarer
Becket eller Guds ære (1961) — Forfatter — 926 eksemplarer
Lærken (1952) — Forfatter — 356 eksemplarer
Traveller Without Luggage / Thieves' Carnival (1900) — Forfatter — 196 eksemplarer
Ring Round the Moon (1948) — Forfatter — 115 eksemplarer
The Rehearsal (1950) 81 eksemplarer
Traveller Without Luggage (1959) 81 eksemplarer
The Waltz of the Toreadors (1953) — Forfatter — 70 eksemplarer
Le bal des voleurs : Le français pour tous (1952) — Forfatter — 61 eksemplarer
Three European Plays (1958) — Bidragyder — 59 eksemplarer
Mademoiselle Colombe (1954) 56 eksemplarer
Restless Heart / Ring Round the Moon (1900) — Forfatter — 54 eksemplarer
Time Remembered (1942) 44 eksemplarer
Les Poissons rouges (1971) 39 eksemplarer
Antigone (Excerpts) (1968) 38 eksemplarer
Medea (1946) — Forfatter — 34 eksemplarer
It's Later Than You Think (1956) 33 eksemplarer
Plays — Forfatter — 32 eksemplarer
Anna Karenina [1948 film] (1948) — Writer — 31 eksemplarer
The Cavern (1705) — Forfatter — 29 eksemplarer
Dinner with the Family / Time Remembered (1962) — Forfatter — 27 eksemplarer
Poor Bitos; or, The Masked Dinner (1956) — Forfatter — 27 eksemplarer
Fables (1962) 27 eksemplarer
Monsieur Vincent [1947 film] (1947) — Screenwriter — 25 eksemplarer
Dear Antoine; or, The Love That Failed (1971) — Forfatter — 23 eksemplarer
Eurydice (1951) 22 eksemplarer
Eurydice / Romeo and Jeannette (1980) 19 eksemplarer
The Fighting Cock (1959) — Forfatter — 18 eksemplarer
Ardele: a Play in Three Acts (1950) 18 eksemplarer
Antigone. Variazioni sul mito (2000) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Dinner with the Family: A Play in Three Acts (1958) — Forfatter — 10 eksemplarer
Restless Heart (1934) — Forfatter — 10 eksemplarer
Antigone / Eurydice (1951) 9 eksemplarer
Antigone / Jezabel (2004) 9 eksemplarer
Le scénario (1984) 9 eksemplarer
The Arrest (1986) 8 eksemplarer
Oedipe ou Le Roi boiteux (1986) 8 eksemplarer
Ne réveillez pas madame ... (1970) 8 eksemplarer
La Culotte (1985) 7 eksemplarer
Le Boulanger, la Boulangère et le Petit Mitron (1980) — Forfatter — 6 eksemplarer
Cécile ou L'école des pères (1954) 6 eksemplarer
Pieces Costumees (1953) 5 eksemplarer
Ardele / The Waltz of the Toreadors (1948) — Forfatter — 5 eksemplarer
The Director of the Opera (1972) 5 eksemplarer
Romeo and Jeannette (1965) 5 eksemplarer
La belle vie (1980) 5 eksemplarer
Ardele / Poor Bitos (1965) 4 eksemplarer
Catch as Catch Can (1962) — Forfatter — 4 eksemplarer
Number One: A Play (1985) 4 eksemplarer
Chers Zoiseaux (1997) 4 eksemplarer
Thomas More ou L'homme libre (1987) — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
Eurydice / Medea (1984) 3 eksemplarer
Teatro 3 eksemplarer
Théâtre (Tome 1) (2007) 2 eksemplarer
Théâtre (Tome 2) (2007) 2 eksemplarer
Théâtre (2007) 2 eksemplarer
The Ermine 2 eksemplarer
Пьесы 2 eksemplarer
The Orchestra (1977) 2 eksemplarer
Twentieth Century Texts : Jean Anouilh : L'Alouette (1990) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Les Otages [1939 film] (2005) — Writer — 1 eksemplar
La ronde [1964 film] (1964) — Screenwriter — 1 eksemplar
Becket l'alouette — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Pièces secrètes (1974) 1 eksemplar
Vive Henri IV ! ou La Galigaï (2000) — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Ardle 1 eksemplar
Drei Stücke 1 eksemplar
Ardele and Colombe (1959) 1 eksemplar
Teatro 5 : piezas chirriantes — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Los peces rojos (1974) 1 eksemplar
ANTIGONE (1983) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Becket [1964 film] (1964) — Play — 111 eksemplarer
One Act: Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theater (1961) — Bidragyder — 102 eksemplarer
Modern French Theatre (1964) — Bidragyder — 67 eksemplarer
The Modern Theatre, Volume 3 (1955) — Bidragyder — 65 eksemplarer
Contemporary Drama - 11 Plays (1956) — Bidragyder — 43 eksemplarer
The Modern Theatre, Volume 5 (1957) — Bidragyder — 42 eksemplarer
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1960) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
Twenty best European plays on the American stage (1957) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
Best Plays of the Sixties (1970) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
Profil d'une œuvre. Antigone, Anouilh (1971) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Anouilh, Jean
Juridisk navn
Anouilh, Jean Marie Lucien Pierre
Fødselsdato
1910-06-23
Dødsdag
1987-10-03
Begravelsessted
Cimetière communal, Pully, Vaud, Suisse
Køn
male
Nationalitet
France (birth)
Land (til kort)
France
Fødested
Cérisole, Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Dødssted
Lausanne, Switzerland
Dødsårsag
heart attack
Bopæl
Bordeaux, France
Uddannelse
University of Paris (law - not completed)
Lycée Chaptal
Erhverv
playwright
screenwriter
advertising copywriter
director
Relationer
Anouilh, Caroline (daughter)
Organisationer
Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris (Secrétaire général, 19 30
Agence de publicité Étienne Damour (Publicitaire, 19 28 | 19 30)
Grands Magasins du Louvre(Employé, 19 28)
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1970)
Grand Prix du Théâtre de l'Académie française (1980)
Kort biografi
Jean Anouilh est un écrivain et dramaturge français né le 13 juin 1910 à Bordeaux et mort le 3 octobre 1987 à Lausanne, en Suisse. Dès le lycée, Jean Anouilh se découvre une passion pour le théâtre mais c'est une représentation de Siegried de Jean Giraudoux, en 1928, qui le décide à écrire pour le théâtre, une activité qu’il poursuivra durant la guerre et l’occupation allemande (Antigone, en 1942, souleva d’ailleurs une violente polémique quant à la supposée dimension politique de l'oeuvre). À partir de 1961, il s’est davantage tourné vers la mise en scène et a contribué à faire connaitre Samuel Beckett et Eugène Ionesco. Il s'est également occupé de l'adaptation de pièces de théâtre étrangères, notamment plusieurs de Shakespeare.

Les pièces d’Anouilh oscillent entre comédie et drame, qu'il a lui-même classées en différentes catégories selon leurs thèmes et leur esprit : Pièces roses, Pièces noires, Pièces brillantes, Pièces grinçantes, Pièces costumées, Pièces baroques, Pièces secrètes et Pièces farceuses. Dans son oeuvre théâtrale et dans ses comédies, l’humour y est féroce et le cynisme omniprésent. L’œuvre d’Anouilh est avant tout empreinte d’un pessimisme profond.

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Great cast but I think that I liked the 1964 film with Richard Burton & Peter O'Toole based on this play better.
 
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leslie.98 | 15 andre anmeldelser | Jun 27, 2023 |
Read this French text while listening to an English-language audiobook. (translated by Christopher Nixon).

Luckily for me I got the audiobook as when I turned to the print edition I had checked out from the library, it turned out to be in French!! My French isn't good enough to have read this alone but was good enough to attempt reading it with the help of an English translation in audio :) It was an interesting experience! The L.A. TheatreWorks audiobook doesn't include stage directions so I would pause momentarily while I read these.

One thing that I noticed is that while Creon talks to Antigone in the familiar (tu), she responds to him in the formal (vous). This difference gives a spin to their relationship which cannot easily be duplicated in English.

Reading this knowing that it was written & first performed in Vichy France gives certain phrases and actions a special significance. However, even without that Anouilh's version of this story had some interesting twists to Sophocles' original. Creon is a more ambivalent character; he seems more reasonable, more caring and less stubborn than the one in either the Sophocles or Heaney versions. Antigone's relationships with Haemon (Creon's son) and her sister Ismene are both expanded but her motivation for her actions in this version is much more murky. By lessening the contrast between the 2 characters you would expect that the tension would be less but Anouilh manages to make their confrontation even more heartbreaking as it has overtones of a family feud (and of course, if you read into it Creon as the French colloborator acting for the Nazis and Antigone as the Resistance fighter, then the drama is heightened even further).
… (mere)
 
Markeret
leslie.98 | 15 andre anmeldelser | Jun 27, 2023 |
Excellent full cast recording and the translation by Christopher Nixon was also very good.

I got this as a digital audiobook, not CDs
 
Markeret
leslie.98 | 15 andre anmeldelser | Jun 27, 2023 |
The film is better but the play is still good. How amazing it would have been to see Laurence Olivier (Becket) and Anthony Quinn (the king) star in its 1960 opening on the New York stage!
 
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bibliothecarivs | 15 andre anmeldelser | Sep 17, 2021 |

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