by Jean Anouilh · La Table Ronde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782710308379
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«Médée» is the play by Jean Anouilh, published by La Table Ronde in 1997, in paperback (96 pages, in French).
Anouilh revisits the classical myth of Medea, the woman who betrayed her father and killed her brother for love of Jason and who, years later, when abandoned, responds with vengeance. Faced with flight and «pobre bonheur», the protagonist chooses to set fire to everything around her, in a version that renews tragedy with sharp language and a ruthless look at passion and destruction.
Part of the La Petite Vermillon collection. The play was originally published in 1946; this edition is from 1997.
Recommended for readers of contemporary French theater and for those seeking modern versions of Greek myths.
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.
