La Bugiarda

by Jean Giraudoux

Pour conquerir Reginald, diplomate, homme politique, homme tout court, Nelly "gentille et frivole femme," s'invente un passe munificent, un present romanesque. Confondue, l'acharnee de ses songes ne desespere pas et force le mensonge a devenir realite, mais l'amour ne reviendra pas... {La Menteuse, } ecrit en 1936, ne fut publie qu'en 1969."

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Greek mythology or Biblical stories base dramas, such as Electra (1937), of French writer Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux, who also wrote several novels. He fathered Jean-Pierre Giraudoux.

People consider this French novelist, essayist, diplomat. and playwright among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. They note his work for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. The relationship between man and woman or some unattainable ideal in some cases dominates themes of Giraudoux .

Léger Giraudoux, father of Jean Giraudoux, worked for the ministry of transport. Giraudoux studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and upon graduation traveled extensively in Europe. After his return to France in 1910, he accepted a position with the ministry of foreign affairs.
With the outbreak of World War I, he served with distinction and in 1915 became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion of Honour.

He married in 1918 and in the subsequent inter-war period produced the majority of his writing. He first achieved literary success through his novels, notably Siegfried et le Limousin (1922) and Eglantine (1927). An ongoing collaboration with actor and theater director Louis Jouvet, beginning in 1928 with Jouvet's radical streamlining of Siegfried for the stage, stimulated his writing. But it is through his plays that gained him international renown. He became well known in the English-speaking world largely because of the award-winning adaptations of his plays by Christopher Fry (The Trojan War Will Not Take Place) and Maurice Valency (The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine, The Enchanted, The Apollo of Bellac).

Giraudoux served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris.

His son, Jean-Pierre Giraudoux, was also a writer.

Reviews

[Aurora · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sarà un periodo che sono parecchio stanca, e questo libro non era molto sulle mie corde, ma che fatica è stata terminarlo. Inizialmente la lettura scorreva piacevolmente, Giradaux offre un analisi psicologica piuttosto accurata della bugiarda con i suoi due amanti, però poi andando avanti la storia inizia ad essere ripetitiva, irrisolta e snervante, forse per un odio e repulsione verso la protagonista che continua a mentire sempre e comunque, senza risolvere e porre una soluzione ai danni provocati dalle sue bugie. Ad un certo punto le pagine scorrevano senza più interesse. Probabilmente la storia si rivela così insoluta anche per il fatto che sia tratto da fatti realmente accaduti a Giradaux, e quindi la realtà spesso si rivela monotona e snervante. Comunque, una cosa che sicuramente mi ha sorpreso di questo libro è stato l' uso delle parole, molto singolare e unico nel modo di narrare e descrivere lo stato psicologico della protagonista e anche abbastanza accurato, facendomi quasi vagamente pensare alla " coscienza di Zeno", ma ovviamente in uno stile più grezzo.

[twig · Rating 3 out of 5]

pas long mais pas très clair. une fille a deux amoureux et mène une double vie. l'un des hommes finit par acheter une petite voiture pour l'amant de son amant en pensant qu'elle a un enfant à l'orphelinat. tf

concept : 4
écriture : 2
lisibilité : 3
longueur : 4
total : 3,25/5