by Jean Anouilh · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070367597
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«Le Voyageur sans bagage» (with «Le Bal des voleurs») is the theater volume by Jean Anouilh published by Folio in paperback, in French.
This volume brings together two plays. In «Le Voyageur sans bagage», an amnesiac has been institutionalized for years and several families, drawn by his pension, believe they recognize a missing person in him; the play asks whether identity can be chosen. «Le Bal des voleurs» is a comedy about deception and appearances.
The volume includes both plays in full text. It belongs to the Folio collection from Gallimard, number 759; this edition was published in 1972.
Suitable for students of French and for those interested in twentieth-century French 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.
