by Jean Anouilh · Editions Larousse · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782038700015
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«La répétition ou l'amour puni» is the comedy by Jean Anouilh, published by Editions Larousse in paperback (157 pages, in French).
A group of idle aristocrats rehearses a play by Marivaux in a French castle. Gradually, the boundaries between the performance and their lives blur: the cynicism, desire and cruelty of high society come to the surface. Jean Anouilh thus builds a reflection on love, falsehood and theatre within theatre.
The work is part of Jean Anouilh's 'pièces brillantes'. This 1991 edition belongs to the Classiques Larousse collection.
School edition aimed at students of French literature and theatre enthusiasts.
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 production of Sophocles' Antigone, which, though performed without objection by censors, was nevertheless seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
