by Jean Anouilh · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070363759
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«Le Rendez-vous de Senlis» is a play by Jean Anouilh, published by Folio in paperback alongside «Léocadia» (256 pages, in French).
The title piece follows Georges, a twenty-eight-year-old young man who lives off his wealthy wife. To impress the young woman he invites to dinner, he lies about his life, rents a house in Senlis and hires two actors to play his parents; meanwhile, his wife threatens to divorce him if he does not come home.
The title play was originally published in 1941. This volume is number 375 in the Folio collection.
For students of French and readers interested in twentieth-century European theater.
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.
