by Jean Anouilh · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070363988
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«Colombe» is a play by French playwright Jean Anouilh, published by Folio in paperback (224 pages, in French).
The play centers on Colombe, a young woman drawn into the world of theater and love. With an ironic and dark comic tone, Anouilh portrays ambition, innocence and the search for identity in a world of glamour and appearances. Witty dialogue and two-faced characters sustain a critical look at superficiality.
The play premiered at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris on February 10, 1951 and is number 398 in the Folio collection.
For readers interested in twentieth-century French theater and the dramaturgy of Jean Anouilh.
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.
