by Jean Anouilh · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070364442
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«La Répétition ou l'amour puni» is the play by Jean Anouilh, published by Folio in paperback (160 pages, in French).
A comedy set in an artificial aristocratic circle: the count and countess tolerate each other's infidelities as long as they stay within their milieu. When the count falls in love with Sylvia, a sincere young woman unimpressed by the court, his wife and his former mistress forge a strange alliance to destroy her.
The play was originally published in 1950; this 1973 edition belongs to the Folio collection, number 444.
Recommended for readers of European theatre and French literature; the complete text is in French.
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.
