by Jean Giraudoux, Jean-Pierre Giraudoux · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253097969
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«Amphitryon 38 / Amphitryon 39» is the play by Jean Giraudoux and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback, in French.
«Amphitryon 38» (1929) rewrites the legend with an Alcmena in love with her husband who rejects Jupiter's immortality because mortality gives life value. «Amphitryon 39», by Jean-Pierre Giraudoux, offers a comic twist on the myth: Juno covets the mortal Amphitryon and ends up united with Alcmena, upsetting Olympus.
1994 edition with 187 pages; the volume bears the subtitle «Comédie en trois actes / Suite d'Amphitryon 38» and includes the complete text.
For readers of French theatre and recreations of the classical myth, as well as for followers of Jean Giraudoux.
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.
