by Jean-Claude Carrière · FLAMMARION · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080721648
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«La Controverse de Valladolid» is a play by Jean-Claude Carrière, published by Flammarion in paperback (128 pages, in French).
In a convent in Valladolid, sixty years after the discovery of America, the Dominican Las Casas argues that indigenous people are men like any others, against the philosopher Sepúlveda, who maintains that some peoples are born to be dominated. The debate, on which the fate of millions depends, has an unexpected outcome.
2003 edition in the Étonnants Classiques collection, with introduction and pedagogical dossier by Anne Cassou-Noguès and Marie-Aude de Langenhagen. The work was originally published in 1992.
For secondary school students (collège in France): the edition includes a dossier with activities, notes and reading guides for school use.
Jean-Claude Carrière was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later given an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in The Return of Martin Guerre (1983).
