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Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)

Autor de Antigone

150+ Obras 4,956 Miembros 56 Reseñas 11 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

Jean Anouilh was born on June 23, 1910, in France. Anouilh studied law as a teenager and worked briefly in advertising. He soon became aware of his strong attraction to the theatre and became one of France's foremost playwrights and screenwriters. Anouilh's works are noted for their theatrical mostrar más conventions. His plays, many of which are bleak dramas, feature characters facing highly moral dilemmas. He uses such conventions as flashbacks, role reversals, and play-within-a-play to achieve dramatic effects. Anouilh received a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for his play Waltz of the Toreadors and a Tony award for Thieves Carnival. Other well-known works include Antigone, Eurydice and the film Pattes Blanches. Anouilh suffered a heart attack and died in 1987. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Jean Anouilh en 1968

Series

Obras de Jean Anouilh

Antigone (1944) — Autor — 1,379 copias
Becket o El honor de Dios (1961) — Autor — 942 copias
The Lark (1952) — Autor — 362 copias
Traveller Without Luggage / Thieves' Carnival (1900) — Autor — 198 copias
Ring Round the Moon (1948) — Autor — 116 copias
Traveller Without Luggage (1959) 83 copias
The Rehearsal (1950) 82 copias
The Waltz of the Toreadors (1953) — Autor — 73 copias
Thieves' Carnival: A Play in Four Parts (1952) — Autor — 61 copias
Three European Plays (1958) — Contribuidor — 59 copias
Mademoiselle Colombe (1954) 57 copias
Restless Heart / Ring Round the Moon (1900) — Autor — 55 copias
Time Remembered (1942) 44 copias
Les Poissons rouges (1971) 39 copias
Antigone (Excerpts) (1968) 39 copias
Medea (1946) — Autor — 35 copias
It's Later Than You Think (1956) 34 copias
Anna Karenina [1948 film] (1948) — Writer — 32 copias
Plays — Autor — 32 copias
The Cavern (1705) — Autor — 29 copias
Fables (1962) 28 copias
Poor Bitos; or, The Masked Dinner (1956) — Autor — 27 copias
Dinner with the Family / Time Remembered (1962) — Autor — 27 copias
Monsieur Vincent (1947) — Screenwriter — 24 copias
Dear Antoine; or, The Love That Failed (1971) — Autor — 23 copias
Eurydice (1951) 22 copias
The Fighting Cock (1959) — Autor — 18 copias
Antigone. Variazioni sul mito (2000) — Contribuidor — 17 copias
Piezas Brillantes (1951) 15 copias
Restless Heart (1934) — Autor — 10 copias
Dinner with the Family: A Play in Three Acts (1958) — Autor — 10 copias
Antigone / Eurydice (1951) 9 copias
Antigona - Jezabel (2004) 9 copias
Le scénario (1984) 9 copias
The Arrest (1986) 8 copias
Oedipe ou Le Roi boiteux (1986) 8 copias
La Culotte (1985) 7 copias
Romeo and Jeannette (1965) 5 copias
La belle vie (1980) 5 copias
The Director of the Opera (1972) 5 copias
Pieces Costumees (1953) 5 copias
Ardele / The Waltz of the Toreadors (1948) — Autor — 5 copias
Number One: A Play (1985) 4 copias
Chers Zoiseaux (1997) 4 copias
Catch as Catch Can (1962) — Autor — 4 copias
Ardele / Poor Bitos (1965) 4 copias
Thomas More ou L'homme libre (1987) — Autor — 3 copias
Teatro 3 copias
Eurydice / Medea (1984) 3 copias
Théâtre (Tome 1) (2007) 2 copias
Théâtre (Tome 2) (2007) 2 copias
Пьесы 2 copias
The Ermine 2 copias
The Orchestra (1977) 2 copias
Théâtre (2007) 2 copias
La ronde [1964 film] (1964) — Screenwriter — 1 copia
Cher Antoine 1 copia
Les Otages [1939 film] (2005) — Writer — 1 copia
Ardle 1 copia
Becket l'alouette — Autor — 1 copia
Vive Henri IV ! ou La Galigaï (2000) — Autor — 1 copia
Drei Stücke 1 copia
Ardele and Colombe (1959) 1 copia
Pièces secrètes (1974) 1 copia
Teatro 5 : piezas chirriantes — Autor — 1 copia
Los peces rojos (1974) 1 copia
ANTIGONE (1983) 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

Becket [1964 film] (1964) — Play — 112 copias
One Act: Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theater (1961) — Contribuidor — 106 copias
The Modern Theatre, Volume 3 (1955) — Contribuidor — 72 copias
Modern French Theatre (1964) — Contribuidor — 66 copias
Contemporary Drama - 11 Plays (1956) — Contribuidor — 46 copias
The Modern Theatre, Volume 5 (1957) — Contribuidor — 42 copias
Twenty best European plays on the American stage (1957) — Contribuidor — 28 copias
Best Plays of the Sixties (1970) — Contribuidor — 23 copias
Profil d'une œuvre. Antigone, Anouilh (1971) — Contribuidor — 14 copias

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Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Anouilh, Jean
Nombre legal
Anouilh, Jean Marie Lucien Pierre
Fecha de nacimiento
1910-06-23
Fecha de fallecimiento
1987-10-03
Lugar de sepultura
Cimetière communal, Pully, Vaud, Suisse
Género
male
Nacionalidad
France (birth)
País (para mapa)
France
Lugar de nacimiento
Cérisole, Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Lugar de fallecimiento
Lausanne, Switzerland
Causa de fallecimiento
heart attack
Lugares de residencia
Bordeaux, France
Educación
University of Paris (law - not completed)
Lycée Chaptal
Ocupaciones
playwright
screenwriter
advertising copywriter
director
Relaciones
Anouilh, Caroline (daughter)
Organizaciones
Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris (Secrétaire général, 19 30
Agence de publicité Étienne Damour (Publicitaire, 19 28 | 19 30)
Grands Magasins du Louvre(Employé, 19 28)
Premios y honores
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1970)
Grand Prix du Théâtre de l'Académie française (1980)
Biografía breve
Jean Anouilh est un écrivain et dramaturge français né le 13 juin 1910 à Bordeaux et mort le 3 octobre 1987 à Lausanne, en Suisse. Dès le lycée, Jean Anouilh se découvre une passion pour le théâtre mais c'est une représentation de Siegried de Jean Giraudoux, en 1928, qui le décide à écrire pour le théâtre, une activité qu’il poursuivra durant la guerre et l’occupation allemande (Antigone, en 1942, souleva d’ailleurs une violente polémique quant à la supposée dimension politique de l'oeuvre). À partir de 1961, il s’est davantage tourné vers la mise en scène et a contribué à faire connaitre Samuel Beckett et Eugène Ionesco. Il s'est également occupé de l'adaptation de pièces de théâtre étrangères, notamment plusieurs de Shakespeare.

Les pièces d’Anouilh oscillent entre comédie et drame, qu'il a lui-même classées en différentes catégories selon leurs thèmes et leur esprit : Pièces roses, Pièces noires, Pièces brillantes, Pièces grinçantes, Pièces costumées, Pièces baroques, Pièces secrètes et Pièces farceuses. Dans son oeuvre théâtrale et dans ses comédies, l’humour y est féroce et le cynisme omniprésent. L’œuvre d’Anouilh est avant tout empreinte d’un pessimisme profond.

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3.5*

Great cast but I think that I liked the 1964 film with Richard Burton & Peter O'Toole based on this play better.
 
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leslie.98 | 15 reseñas más. | Jun 27, 2023 |
Read this French text while listening to an English-language audiobook. (translated by Christopher Nixon).

Luckily for me I got the audiobook as when I turned to the print edition I had checked out from the library, it turned out to be in French!! My French isn't good enough to have read this alone but was good enough to attempt reading it with the help of an English translation in audio :) It was an interesting experience! The L.A. TheatreWorks audiobook doesn't include stage directions so I would pause momentarily while I read these.

One thing that I noticed is that while Creon talks to Antigone in the familiar (tu), she responds to him in the formal (vous). This difference gives a spin to their relationship which cannot easily be duplicated in English.

Reading this knowing that it was written & first performed in Vichy France gives certain phrases and actions a special significance. However, even without that Anouilh's version of this story had some interesting twists to Sophocles' original. Creon is a more ambivalent character; he seems more reasonable, more caring and less stubborn than the one in either the Sophocles or Heaney versions. Antigone's relationships with Haemon (Creon's son) and her sister Ismene are both expanded but her motivation for her actions in this version is much more murky. By lessening the contrast between the 2 characters you would expect that the tension would be less but Anouilh manages to make their confrontation even more heartbreaking as it has overtones of a family feud (and of course, if you read into it Creon as the French colloborator acting for the Nazis and Antigone as the Resistance fighter, then the drama is heightened even further).
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leslie.98 | 15 reseñas más. | Jun 27, 2023 |
Excellent full cast recording and the translation by Christopher Nixon was also very good.

I got this as a digital audiobook, not CDs
 
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leslie.98 | 15 reseñas más. | Jun 27, 2023 |
The film is better but the play is still good. How amazing it would have been to see Laurence Olivier (Becket) and Anthony Quinn (the king) star in its 1960 opening on the New York stage!
 
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bibliothecarivs | 15 reseñas más. | Sep 17, 2021 |

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