by Jean Giraudoux · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253004899
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«La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu» is a play by Jean Giraudoux, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (185 pages, in French).
On the eve of the Trojan War, Hector and Ulysses try to prevent the conflict between Greeks and Trojans, while Andromache maintains that the war will not take place. With irony and tragedy, Giraudoux shows how fate and human passions ultimately prevail over the will for peace.
No. 945 in the Le Livre de Poche collection. Premiered in 1935 at the Théâtre de l'Athénée, directed by Louis Jouvet; New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play (1956).
Suitable for students of French and for readers interested in twentieth-century theatre and in recreations of classical myths.
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.
