by Emile De Girardin · Antigonos Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783563044575
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«La joie fait peur» is the one-act comedy by Emile de Girardin, published by Antigonos Verlag in paperback (264 pages, in French).
One-act comedy: the title, translatable as «joy is frightening», points to the unease that happiness produces. The play develops this idea in a comic tone within nineteenth-century French theatre.
Reprint of the original 1868 edition, with a publication date of 10 May 2025 and printed on demand.
For readers of French theatre in its original language who seek short pieces from the nineteenth-century repertoire.
Émile de Girardin was a French journalist, publisher and politician. He was the most successful and flamboyant French journalist of the era, presenting himself as a promoter of mass education through mass journalism. His magazines reached over a hundred thousand subscribers, and his inexpensive daily newspaper La Presse undersold the competition by half, thanks to its cheaper production and heavier advertising. Like most prominent journalists, Girardin was deeply involved in politics, and served in parliament. To his bitter disappointment, he never held high office. He was a brilliant polemicist, a master of controversy, with pungent short sentences that immediately caught the reader's attention.
