by Jean-Claude Carrière · Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782081427594
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«La Controverse de Valladolid» is the play by Jean-Claude Carrière, published by Flammarion in paperback (140 pages, in French).
In a convent in Valladolid, sixty years after the discovery of America, two men debate whether indigenous people are human beings. The Dominican Las Casas, defender of the Indian cause, denounces the abuses of the conquest; the philosopher Sepúlveda maintains that some peoples are born to be dominated. At stake is the future of millions of people.
The play appeared in 1992; this school edition from Étonnants Classiques includes the complete text, analysis, theatrical vocabulary and reference to the film adaptation by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe (1992).
Edition for secondary school and sixth-form students, useful for those studying French literature or the history of the colonisation of America.
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).
