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  The Theatrical Art of Jean Giraudoux
Giraudoux never believed that his age measured up to such periods of history, and hence tragedies written in it could not aspire to the formal solemnity of a Sophocles or a Racine.
Each age produces the tragedies it deserves, and Giraudoux's are adaptations to the style and the limitations of the twentieth century.
Like Racine, one of Giraudoux's principal admirations, he chose for his heroes and heroines celebrated figures of mythology and the Bible, figures like Judith, Electra, Helen, who slumber in books when they are not fulfilling their destinies in works the poets have devised to keep them alive.
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 Jean Giraudoux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29 1882 - January 31 1944) was a French dramatist who wrote acclaimed plays.
Giraudoux was also a prose writer and France as a diplomat and government official.
This play is probably Giraudoux's masterpiece: it contains every emotion that could possibly be felt by a woman torn between the love of her brother and the hate of her mother.
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 There Will Be No Trojan War
Jean Giraudoux wrote it in 1935 as a warning to Europe about World War II.
Giraudoux meant the script as a farce, not an allegory, so it works better as a general anti-war play than as specific protest.
I think Giraudoux would admit the difference between a frivolous, taunting banner flown from a Greek mast and three fuel-heavy jetliners flown into inhabited buildings; Krishna himself advises that pacifism is sometimes more craven than war.
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 Jean Giraudoux - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944) was a French dramatist who wrote internationally acclaimed plays.
Giraudoux was also a prose writer and served France as a diplomat and government official.
In his youth he traveled abroad, visiting Germany, Italy, the Balkans, Canada, and the United States, where he spent a year (1906-07) as an instructor at Harvard University.
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 Conflit et bonheur chez Jean Giraudoux
Ainsi Giraudoux revient-il aux sources: la poésie est le langage à l'état pur, la tragédie grecque est le lieu où s'affrontent les passions primitives, et la province offre une série de types que définissent leur fonction et leur métier.
Giraudoux privilégie les réactions humaines au point que son théâtre peut apparaître comme l'expression du rapport idéal entre la salle et la scène.
Giraudoux a fait du présupposé de l'artiste la matière de son oeuvre.
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 Jean Anouilh Biography / Biography of Jean Anouilh Biography Biography
Jean Anouilh was born in Cérisole, near Bordeaux, on June 23, 1910.
Profoundly impressed by the plays of Jean Giraudoux and Luigi Pirandello, which broke with the tradition of the realistic theater, Anouilh recognized the value of poetry, of illusion and fantasy, and of irony as a means of portraying basic truths about human life.
He held the growing conviction that the essence of the theater, that is, its quality of make-believe, mirrors the pretense and self-delusion of life; this led him to exploit the artificiality of the theater as a way of exposing the falsity of men's motives and even of their allegedly noblest principles and sentiments.
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 Jean Giraudoux - Wikipédia
Jean Giraudoux (Bellac, en Haute-Vienne, Limousin, le 29 octobre 1882 - Paris, 31 janvier 1944) est un écrivain français.
Né dans une famille modeste, Giraudoux fait de brillantes études et se passionne pour la culture allemande, avant de se diriger vers la diplomatie et l'écriture.
Jean Giraudoux meurt, selon la version officielle, à la suite d'un empoisonnement alimentaire.
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 MSN Encarta - Resultados de la búsqueda - Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944), dramaturgo, novelista y diplomático francés, cuyas ingeniosas obras, de un original impresionismo, basado en el diálogo...
Jean Giraudoux llamó la atención en un principio por sus narraciones realistas de la vida provinciana francesa (Los Provinciales, 1909).
Jean Harlow (1911-1937), actriz estadounidense, prototipo de rubia platino y uno de los primeros sex symbol de la historia del cine.
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 15 HEAD Archives: Enchanted Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But in Giraudoux's telling, this fellow travels the world in his mind; when he measures miles he's in America, when he counts drachmas he is in Greece, and so on.
Giraudoux' script concerns a lovely young woman named Isabel, who has been communing with the spirit of a dead young man. The ghost's presence has set the town awry: Fortune, in the words of one character, is displaying some intelligence, with the needy actually winning the lottery and other such karmic niceties.
Giraudoux gives him the tools in the script, and Byrd uses those tools ably, powering the story to a conclusion that can't help but elicit a sigh.
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 Jean Giraudoux Biography / Biography of Jean Giraudoux Biography Biography
The plays and novels of the French author and diplomat Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) are marked by the use of myth, fantasy, and an original, somewhat precious style.
Jean Giraudoux was born on Oct. 29, 1882, in the little town of Bellac in the Limousin, the second son of a provincial employee of the highway department and a gentle, reserved mother whose letters show a natural gift for writing.
In 1893 Giraudoux received a scholarship at the Iycée of Châteauroux, where he was an excellent pupil for 7 years.
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 French culture | performing arts | Giraudoux's Madwoman in NY Oc t 2-28, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944), was a noted French playwright, novelist, and diplomat.
Giraudoux was born in Bellac, France, and educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, the University of Munich, and Harvard University.
Giraudoux first won literary acclaim for several novels that appeared shortly after World War I. These were followed by such internationally successful plays as Siegfried (1928), Amphitryon 38 (1929), Intermezzo (1933), Tiger at the Gates (1935), Electre (1937), and Ondine (1939).
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 Search Results for "Jean Giraudoux"
Giraudoux, Jean, (zhaN zherodoo´) (KEY), 1882-1944, French novelist and dramatist.
He was a prolific writer and combined his literary work with a long and successful...
The legend is the subject of Baron de La Motte-Fouque's Undine and Jean Giraudoux's Ondine....
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Jean Giraudoux wrote his satirical classic during the Nazi occupation of France.
Jean Giraudoux was educated at the École Normale Superiéure and made the diplomatic service his career.
Jean Giraudoux died on January 31, 1944 French novelist, essayist, and playwright, 1882-1944.
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 Jean Giraudoux :: introduction
Plaisir de lire Giraudoux - de découvrir ses récits de guerre, méconnus : Lectures pour une ombre, Adorable Clio, si personnels [8].
Régulièrement depuis un quart de siècle les Cahiers Jean Giraudoux publient correspondances inédites, œuvres de jeunesse, dossiers thématiques, variantes et interviews peu accessibles [16].
Celui qu'ont éprouvé et partagé, à la représentation, à la lecture de Giraudoux, Jean Paulhan, Claude Roy, Chris Marker, François-Régis Bastide, Jean-Louis Curtis, et au soir d'un beau dimanche Jorge Semprun [21].
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 Jean Giraudoux - netlexikon
Giraudoux wuchs auf als Sohn eines kleinen Beamten in südwestfranzösischen Kleinstädten.
Danach bewarb Giraudoux sich jedoch nicht, wie eigentlich geplant, um die Zulassung zum Gymnasialprofessor, sondern ging als Französischlektor an die Harvard-University in die USA.
Nach Kriegsbeginn wurde Giraudoux zum "commissaire général à l'Information" ernannt, einer Art Propaganda-Minister; er zog sich aber nach dem deutschen Angriff, dem "blitz allemand", im Mai 1940 und der Etablierung des Pétain-Regimes im Juni mehr und mehr ins Private zurück.
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 Le sourcier de l'Éden : l'esthétique de l'idylle dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Jean Giraudoux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Giraudoux, Jean, Oeuvres romanesques complètes, tome I et II.
Jaloux, Edmond, D'Eschyle à Giraudoux, Fribourg: n.s., 1946.
Nagel, Suzan, The Influence of the Novels of Jean Giraudoux on the Hispanic Vanguard Novels of the 1920s-1930s, Lewisburg, Pa. and London: Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses, 1991.
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 Giraudoux, Jean --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Giraudoux was educated at the École Normale Superiéure and made the diplomatic service his career.
French sculptor, painter, and poet Jean Arp was one of the leaders of the European avant-garde in the arts during the first half of the 20th century.
He is best known as a surrealist painter and as a founder of Dadaism, an artistic and literary movement embraced by artists who sought to redefine artistic traditions by questioning some of society's traditional...
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 Silicon.fr - CITE DES SITES: Jean Giraudoux dans le cyber-siècle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jean Cocteau - qui dessina le masque mortuaire de Giraudoux - classait ses titres en poésie, poésie de roman, poésie critique, poésie de théâtre, etc. Cette classification serait plus juste encore pour Jean Giraudoux s’il fallait avec ce génie du verbe et de l’image se soucier de mettre un ordre.
Le pli étant pris, j’espère qu’on reprendra aussi les autres pièces de Giraudoux, en particulier "Siegfried", qui pose les rapports entre France et Allemagne, et "La Guerre de Troie" n’aura pas lieu, puisque la guerre a toujours lieu dans quelque partie du monde.
« Giraudoux n’y vit que ses sept-huit premières années, avant d’habiter Pellevoisin (où il croise certainement, sans le savoir, Georges Bernanos) à partir de 1890, d’être interne au lycée de Châteauroux -devenu lycée Jean Giraudoux- entre 1893 et 1900, et de gagner Sceaux et Paris ensuite.
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 Richard Chamberlain in The Madwoman of Chaillot part 4
Giraudoux was born in the village of Bellac
Giraudoux's dramatic and narrative style is a rich and inimitable blend of allusive prose, allegory, fantasy, and political and psychological perceptions.
Thought Giraudoux's world was devastated by the malignancy of World War II, he did not give up hope that sanity or at least a benign madness would ultimately prevail
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 MSN Encarta - Giraudoux, (Hyppolyte) Jean
Giraudoux was born in Bellac and educated at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the University of Munich, and Harvard University.
He became director of information of France in 1929 and held a similar post under the government of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, the so-called Vichy regime.
A novel, La menteuse, was discovered in 1968 and published in English as The Lying Woman in 1972.
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 sam shammas productions - ondine
Jean Giraudoux was born in 1882, and died in 1944.
In Giraudoux's hands, the legend has the usual fairy tale moral lurking within it: a warning that marriage between people of different worlds leads to tragedy.
Giraudoux provocatively asserts that it is precisely this female single-mindedness that makes woman the stronger sex.
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 Jean GIRAUDOUX
Le seul lieu qui garde la mémoire de Giraudoux est un de ceux où il a le moins vécu...
Giraudoux n’y vit que ses sept-huit premières années, avant d’habiter Pellevoisin (où il croise certainement, sans le savoir, Georges Bernanos) à partir de 1890, d’être interne au lycée de Châteauroux -devenu lycée Jean Giraudoux- entre 1893 et 1900, et de gagner Sceaux et Paris ensuite.
Je possede un ouvrage de Jean Giraudoux : Judith illustré par Laboureur(1931) que j’ai acheté dans une vente aux enchéres.
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 Encyclopedia: Jean Giraudoux
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The Trojan war will not take place (La guerre de Troie naura pas lieu) is a play by Jean Giraudoux, 1935.
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 Shotgun Players
Jean Giraudoux could feel World War II pushing in the gates when he wrote There Will Be No Trojan War in 1935.
Giraudoux, like many before him and many to follow, used the legends of Greek and Trojan epics as inspiration for plays of contemporary relevance.
Giraudoux called his play a farce, because of the pathetic and darkly hysterical way that his characters stumble drunkenly into their own destruction.
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 AllRefer.com - Jean Giraudoux (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Jean Giraudoux[zhAN zhErOdOO´] Pronunciation Key, 1882–1944, French novelist and dramatist.
He was a prolific writer and combined his literary work with a long and successful diplomatic career.
In 1928, Giraudoux launched his dramatic career with Siegfried (tr.
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Jean Giraudoux - adaptations translations by modern playwrights
You will be shown all Plays in print by Jean Giraudoux.
Even the greatest god can win her only after much ungodlike embarrassment and, in desperation, the unsportsmanlike device of impersonating Amphitryon himself.
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 "Off-Off Online : Review Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jean Giraudoux was and remains a bit of an anomaly in the theatrical canon.
Giraudoux’s choice of a simplistic medieval legend (or of any of the classical themes he has chosen for his other dramas) gives him a virtual tabla rossi upon which to practice his profoundly poetic and analytic craft.
Giraudoux’s lyrical insights and elegiac phrasing, (which are, by the way, well translated by Roger Gellent) are lost within the hub of a blandly busy production.
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Giraudoux, (Hyppolyte) Jean (1882-1944), French playwright, novelist, and diplomat, whose witty, originally expressed works in an impressionistic...
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 Jean GIRAUDOUX : Ondine
Il faut une longue scène, grave et pénétrée (scène 11) pour qu'à travers la reine Yseult, Giraudoux se fasse l'écho de cette pensée romantique et féministe : la femme seule a su garder des contacts privilégiés avec l'âme générale de la Nature.
Mais le propos de Giraudoux se révèle plus profond dans la scène 11, où nous comprenons par les paroles d'Yseult - ici initiatrice - que l'échec d'Ondine tient à l'orgueil de l'homme : "L'homme a voulu son âme à soi.
L'univers de Giraudoux révèle ici son essentialisme : Ondine est l'Absolu, et Yseult exprime bien le malentendu qui a porté Hans vers elle : "Tu es la clarté, il a aimé une blonde.
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