by Jean Racine · Larousse Kingfisher+chambers · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782038714067
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«Iphigénie» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Larousse in paperback (231 pages, in French).
On the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon receives an oracle demanding he sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia so the Greek fleet can set sail. His indecision between duty and paternal love unleashes passions: Achilles' thirst for glory, Clytemnestra's pride and Eriphyle's jealousy, which end up turning Iphigenia into a victim of human ambition and divine design.
The tragedy dates from 1674; this edition offers the complete text in the Classiques Larousse collection.
Suitable for students of French literature and readers of seventeenth-century classical theatre.
Jean-Baptiste Racine was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young.
