Jean+Anhouile

__**Jean Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) **__ A French dramatist best known for his play //Antigone//, an adaptation of a Sophocles drama. He wrote his first play in 1929. It was called //L’Hermine//. It was unsuccessful, but he wrote plenty of others. He struggled through years of poverty producing several plays until he eventually wound up as secretary to the great actor-director Louis Jouvet. He eventually realized he could not get along with this man and left his company. During World War 2, the Nazi occupation of France, Anouilh didn't openly take sides, but he published the play //Antigone//, which was adapted from the classical work of Sophocles which is often viewed as his most famous work. The play criticises collaborationism with the Nazis. In 1964, Anouilh's play Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu (//Becket or The Honor of God//) was made into a successful film, starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. The screenwriter Edward Anhalt, won an Academy Award for his screenplay.

This is the essence of what Jean Anouilh offers us: a battle between idealism and realism - a man, a hopeless romantic, is locked in a perpetual battle against a society that is hostile to his purity. In his Pièces Roses, the protagonist finds a compromise. Not an ideal one, but an acceptable accommodation with which he can live his life. But in Anouilh's 'Pièces Noires', the battle is lost from the beginning and the character is doomed to a harrowing fate.

__**List of Works**__


 * //L'Hermine //


 * (//The Ermine//) (1932)
 * //Mandarine// (1933)
 * //Y avait un prisonnier// (//There Was a Prisoner//) (1935)
 * //L//e voyageur sans bagage (//Traveler without Luggage//) (1937)
 * //La sauvage// (//Restless Heart//) (1938)
 * //Le Bal des Voleurs// (//Thieves' Carnival//) (1938)
 * //Léocadia// (//Time Remembered//) (1940)
 * Eurydice (//Point of Departure// and //Legend of Lovers//) (1941)
 * //Le rendez-vous de Senlis// (//The Rendezvous at Senlis// and //Dinner with the Family//) (1941)
 * Antigone (1942)
 * //Roméo et Jeannette// (//Romeo and Jeannette//) (1946)
 * //Médée// (Medea) (1946)
 * //L'invitation au Chateau// (//Ring Round the Moon//) (1947)
 * //Ardèle ou la Marguerite// (//Ardèle; The Cry of the Peacock//) (1948)
 * //La répétition ou l'amour puni// (//The Rehearsal//) (1950)
 * //Colombe// (//Mademoiselle Colombe//) (1951)
 * //La valse des toréadors (The Waltz of the Toreadors//) (1952)
 * L'Alouette (The Lark)(1952)
 * //Le chevalier de la nuit//(1953)
 * //Cecile, ou L'ecole des pères// (//Cecile or School for Fathers//) (1954)
 * //Ornifle ou le courant d'air// (//Ornifle// or //It's Later than you Think//) (1955)
 * //Pauvre Bitos ou le dîner de têtes// (//Poor Bitos, or The Masked Dinner//) (1956)
 * //L'hurluberlu ou le réactionnaire amoureux// (//The Fighting Cock//) (1959)
 * //La petite Molière// (1959)
 * //Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu (Becket or The Honor of God)// (1959)
 * //La Grotte// (//The Cavern//) (1961)
 * //fables//(1962)
 * //Le boulanger, la boulangère et le petit mitron// (1968)
 * //Cher Antoine; ou l'amour raté// (//Dear Antoine; or The Love that Failed//) (1969)
 * //Les poissons rouges; ou Mon père, ce héros// (//The Goldfish//) (1970)
 * //Tu étais si gentil quand tu étais petit// (//You Were So Nice When You Were Young//) (1972)
 * //Monsieur Barnett// (1974)
 * //L'Arrestation// (1975)
 * //Chers zoizeaux// (1976)
 * //Vive Henri IV// (1978)
 * //La Culotte// (1978)
 * //La Foire d'empoigne// (//Catch as Catch Can//) (1979)


 * //Le Nombril// (//The Navel//) (1981)

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