by Oscar Wilde · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246804765
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«L'Importance d'être Constant» is Oscar Wilde's comedy published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (341 pages, in French).
Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, two young dandies of Victorian London, invent fictitious identities to escape their obligations. The deception unleashes a comedy of errors that satirizes Victorian hypocrisy with wordplay and wit. The French translation is by Charles Dantzig, who also wrote the essay «La Première Gay Pride».
Premiered on February 14, 1895 at the St. James Theatre in London under the original title The Importance of Being Earnest. Includes as an appendix the act cut from the premiere.
For students of French or literature, and for readers who want to approach a classic of comic theater with an extensive introductory essay.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
