by Jean Giraudoux · French and European Publications Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782035844576
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«La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu» is the play by Jean Giraudoux in paperback (239 pages, in French).
It recreates the myth of Helen, abducted by Paris: the Greeks demand her return, but the Trojans, seduced by her beauty, refuse. Hector and Ulysses try to negotiate peace while propaganda and fate push both sides toward conflict. Written in 1935, after the Great War, the piece reflects on the mechanics of war and the fragility of peace.
A two-act play originally published in 1935, this 2009 edition belongs to the Petits Classiques Larousse collection (no. 23) and includes a pedagogical dossier with studies of the work, its context and its characters.
Aimed at secondary school students and those wishing to discover a reinterpretation of the myth of Troy with interwar echoes.
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.
