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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.


Jean Anouilh


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L'Hurluburlu Paris Comédie des Champs-Elysées 5 February 1959. La Vicomtesse d'Eristal n'a pas reçu son balai mécanique: Souvenirs d'un jeune homme (Paris: La Table Ronde 1987). Plays volume 1 (New York: Hill & Wang 1958); La Sauvage translated by Hill as Restless Heart (London: Methuen 1957); Eurydice translated by Kitty Black as Point of Departure (London: S.

Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (French: [anuj]; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.

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