JEAN ANOUILH (1910-1987) of centenary all wars are holy, I challenge that you find a combatant who does not believe have the sky on your part. Jean Anouilh. THE voice with a VISION TRAGIC of LA life Anouilh is a figure of great importance within French Theatre and is among those who enjoy greater success. His work, which became known after World War II, is imbued with an acute pessimism and a tragic and sordid life, especially appreciable vision in their famous black pieces. All his works reflect a tragic view of life.
Also noteworthy are their protest against the injustice of the world and his perfect knowledge of the use of dialogue and theatrical technique. His theatre has influence of Moliere, Pirandello and Bernard Shaw. He also wrote a type of works, calls parts roses, where grants greater space to the humor and fantasy. Jean Anouilh was born in Bordeaux on June 23, 1910 and died on October 3, 1967 in Lausanne. Son of vasco-franceses parents.
Your father was a tailor and his mother a piano teacher. He studied law and works in an advertising agency. At eighteen he decides to devote his life to the theater and Louis Jouvet becomes Secretary of the famous actor and theatre director. During the German occupation he continues to write. Not collaborating with the Germans but not form part of the French resistance, so it was criticised, however, was one of the most significant and authors represented of his generation, with works of great thematic diversity. He made his debut with the comedy the ermine (1932), but his greatest success was Antigone (1944), modern version of the classic myth, where the problem of the individual rebellion against the established order. Playing with the anachronism faithfully follows the tragedy of Sophocles, with a locker room and a language of the 20th century.