by Jean Anouilh · French and European Publications Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782710381419
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«Antigone» is the play by Jean Anouilh published in the La petite vermillon collection, in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Jean Anouilh reworks Sophocles' tragedy to tell the clash between Antigone and her uncle Creon, king of Thebes, when she defies the decree forbidding the burial of her brother Polynices. The play pits the reason of state against family and religious ties, and portrays a heroine determined to face the consequences of her defiance.
The play was originally published in 1944 and this edition belongs to the La petite vermillon collection (no. 300).
It is a common school reading and may appeal to students of French and to readers of theatre and twentieth-century classics.
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 production of Sophocles' Antigone, which, though performed without objection by censors, was nevertheless seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. 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.
