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سواد عينيها
Translated by Christopher Fry. His last play. Originally presented in London in the spring of 1958 starring Vivien Leigh and Claire Bloom.
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First published October 1, 1934
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Jean Giraudoux
464 books76 followersGreek 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.
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.
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January 21, 2014
فكرة جيدة قتلها المط والتطويل والحوارات المملة.
لا يمكن أن أعجب بمسرحية طويلة لا تقدم لي إلا جرعة فكرية وأدبية يمكن تقديمها في مسرحية قصيرة إلا لو كانت اللغة مثلاً في حد ذاتها ممتعة أو هناك عامل تجريب وهو ما أفتقدته هذه المسرحية.
لا يمكن أن أعجب بمسرحية طويلة لا تقدم لي إلا جرعة فكرية وأدبية يمكن تقديمها في مسرحية قصيرة إلا لو كانت اللغة مثلاً في حد ذاتها ممتعة أو هناك عامل تجريب وهو ما أفتقدته هذه المسرحية.
February 20, 2020
نفس فكرة فيلم شاطئ الغرام بطولىة ليليى مراد وحسيم صدقي
المسرحية أخذت منحنى مختلف تماما عن الفيلم وكانت نهاية المسرحية مأساوية
ونهاية الفيلم سعيدة كأغلب الأفلام العربي
المسرحية أخذت منحنى مختلف تماما عن الفيلم وكانت نهاية المسرحية مأساوية
ونهاية الفيلم سعيدة كأغلب الأفلام العربي
May 13, 2010
This was not great, but I enjoyed the read. It's pretty out of fashion gender politics, but the women are the drivers of the story and there's actually a pretty interesting twist at the end. There are lots of long lectures in this play telling the audience "the way things are" which is not my favorite, but he is French...so...
September 5, 2015
The language is exquisite as ever, but the story is fairly repellent.
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