Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. 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.
Read more about Jean Anouilh: Critical Discussion, Works
Famous quotes containing the words jean anouilh and/or anouilh:
“One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.”
—Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)
“The only immorality ... is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.”
—Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)