by Jean-Claude Carrière · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080722607
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«La Controverse de Valladolid» is the play by Jean-Claude Carrière, published by Flammarion in paperback (119 pages, in French).
In a convent in Valladolid, sixty years after the discovery of the New World, Bartolomé de las Casas and Ginés de Sepúlveda debate whether indigenous people are men like any others. Bartolomé de las Casas defends the indigenous cause against the cruelty of the conquest; Ginés de Sepúlveda maintains that some peoples are born to be dominated. The outcome of the debate is unexpected.
Part of the Étonnants Classiques collection, it presents the complete text. This edition is from 2006; the original work was published in 1992.
Intended for high school students or readers who want to approach French theatre in its original version.
Jean-Claude Carrière was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later given an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in The Return of Martin Guerre (1983).
