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Fables
"Pourquoi n'écris-tu plus de pièces?"
M'a demandé Nicolas tout de go,
Moi qui me crois Victor Hugo,
Oeuvrant, face à la mer dans ma petite pièce,
Sur son rocher de Guernesey
(La conjoncture politique
Rappelant, par ailleurs, le règne de la trique),
Je réponds supérieur : "Non, vois-tu, cet été,
J'ai décidé
(J'ai l'air badin et amusé -
Ca me va bien) que j'écrirais plutôt des fables."
"Tu m'en montres une?" - "Elles ne sont pas pour enfants."
M'a demandé Nicolas tout de go,
Moi qui me crois Victor Hugo,
Oeuvrant, face à la mer dans ma petite pièce,
Sur son rocher de Guernesey
(La conjoncture politique
Rappelant, par ailleurs, le règne de la trique),
Je réponds supérieur : "Non, vois-tu, cet été,
J'ai décidé
(J'ai l'air badin et amusé -
Ca me va bien) que j'écrirais plutôt des fables."
"Tu m'en montres une?" - "Elles ne sont pas pour enfants."
- GenresFiction
158 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1962
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About the author
Jean Anouilh
268 books158 followersWorks, such as
Antigone
(1944), of French playwright Jean Anouilh juxtapose harsh reality and fantasy.
A Basque family bore Anouilh in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux. From his father, a tailor, Anouilh maintained that he inherited a dignity in conscientious craftsmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, a violinist, whose summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcachon supplemented the meager income of the family.
He attended école primaire supérieure and received his secondary education at the Collège Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault, a pupil at the same time and later a major director, recalls Anouilh as an intense, rather dandified figure, who hardly noticed a boy some two years younger. Anouilh enrolled as a law student in the University of Paris but after just eighteen months then found employment in the advertising industry and abandoned the course. He spoke more than once with wry approval of the lessons in the classical virtues of brevity and precision of language he learned while drafting copy.
He followed his first unsuccessful l’Hermine in 1929 with a string. He struggled through years of poverty and produced several dramas until he eventually wound as secretary to the great actor-director Louis Jouvet. He quickly discovered inability to get with this gruff man and left his company. During the Nazi occupation, Anouilh not openly took sides, but people often view his most famous publication. He criticizes collaboration with the Nazis in an allegorical manner. Mostly keeping aloof from politics, Anouilh also clashed with Charles de Gaulle in the 1950s.
In 1964, people made Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu (Becket or The Honor of God) into a successful film, starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. Edward Anhalt adapted and won an Academy Award for his screen.
Anouilh grouped on the basis of dominant tone: "black" tragedies, dominant "pink," "brilliant" combined in aristocratic environments, "jarring" with bitter humor, "costumed" historical characters feature, "baroque," and my failures.
In 1970, the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca recognized him.
A Basque family bore Anouilh in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux. From his father, a tailor, Anouilh maintained that he inherited a dignity in conscientious craftsmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, a violinist, whose summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcachon supplemented the meager income of the family.
He attended école primaire supérieure and received his secondary education at the Collège Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault, a pupil at the same time and later a major director, recalls Anouilh as an intense, rather dandified figure, who hardly noticed a boy some two years younger. Anouilh enrolled as a law student in the University of Paris but after just eighteen months then found employment in the advertising industry and abandoned the course. He spoke more than once with wry approval of the lessons in the classical virtues of brevity and precision of language he learned while drafting copy.
He followed his first unsuccessful l’Hermine in 1929 with a string. He struggled through years of poverty and produced several dramas until he eventually wound as secretary to the great actor-director Louis Jouvet. He quickly discovered inability to get with this gruff man and left his company. During the Nazi occupation, Anouilh not openly took sides, but people often view his most famous publication. He criticizes collaboration with the Nazis in an allegorical manner. Mostly keeping aloof from politics, Anouilh also clashed with Charles de Gaulle in the 1950s.
In 1964, people made Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu (Becket or The Honor of God) into a successful film, starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. Edward Anhalt adapted and won an Academy Award for his screen.
Anouilh grouped on the basis of dominant tone: "black" tragedies, dominant "pink," "brilliant" combined in aristocratic environments, "jarring" with bitter humor, "costumed" historical characters feature, "baroque," and my failures.
In 1970, the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca recognized him.
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July 27, 2020
Un peu déçue dans l'ensemble : certaines fables sont un peu datées et d'autres manquent de finesse.
May 8, 2024
[avril 2024]
bon franchement je l'ai acheté car c'est anouilh et que j'aime bien cet auteur même si j'aime pas les fables. ça l'a pas vraiment fait, c’est intéressant à feuilleter mais ça s'arrête là pour moi :(
après dans la préface il dit bien qu'il a écrit ça pour l'exercice surtout et que si ça peut divertir pendant 1h ou 2 son taff est fait et c'est clairement ça...
bon franchement je l'ai acheté car c'est anouilh et que j'aime bien cet auteur même si j'aime pas les fables. ça l'a pas vraiment fait, c’est intéressant à feuilleter mais ça s'arrête là pour moi :(
après dans la préface il dit bien qu'il a écrit ça pour l'exercice surtout et que si ça peut divertir pendant 1h ou 2 son taff est fait et c'est clairement ça...
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews