La double inconstance
10 best books like La double inconstance (Pierre de Marivaux): Antigone, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Richard III, The Princesse de Clèves, Andromaque, Cinna, Sentimental Education, The Lais of Marie de France, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Les Caractères
TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS -
WE LIVE IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS.
1960's song.
If Sophocles' version of this is the best, Anouilh's is the one that's most like we all are INSIDE.
When I was 16, a callow youth, I thought Anouilh's heroine just couldn't compromise. I thought, how dumb!...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
| Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
| ISBN | 0060825197 |
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0192839934 |
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the...
| Author | Madame de La Fayette |
| ISBN | 0192837265 |
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Well, I have to say the moment I saw this book I thought that it would be about Anne of Cleves a.k.a. the luckiest wife of Henry VIII.
I never heard about the book The Princess of Clèves...
| Author | Jean Racine |
| ISBN | 2070409023 |
Fin d’une guerre où l’on crie malheur aux vaincus. Prise d’otages. Chantage sur un enfant. Complot. Manipulation. Passions trahies et noyées dans le sang. Fanatisme. Folie. Bain de sang final. Des horreurs d’aujourd’hui ? Non. C’est le résumé de la tragédie Andromaque, sur les...
Update 13/5/19
Still the same opinion! Love the originality of this tragedy, the roots in Roman History, and the reflection about power!
Update 31/1/19
Still really love this play, even if Cinna and Maxime are such irresponsible characters: they can't accept the choice...
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 0140447970 |
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux,...
| Author | Marie de France |
| ISBN | 0140447598 |
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of her but she was probably the Abbess of the abbey at Shaftesbury in the late 12th century, illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and hence the half-sister of Henry II of England. It was to a king, and...
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
| Author | Bertolt Brecht |
| ISBN | 1559705434 |
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui) was written by the great German dramatist Bertolt Brecht over the course of 3 furious weeks in 1941, while a refugee in Helsinki, Finland. A dizzyingly intelligent political satire on the (ir)resistibleness of political thuggery,...
| Author | Jean de La Bruyère |
| ISBN | 2070366936 |
Une première moitié de vie occupée à préparer un livre, l'autre à le corriger et à l'amender. Comme Montaigne, et peut-être un peu plus que lui, La Bruyère est bien l'homme d'un seul livre, et ce livre est celui d'une vie. Entre le projet et le dernier état revu par l'auteur sur lequel est fondée...
À Naples, une jeune femme mariée, Marianne, est aimée de Coelio. Souhaitant rester fidèle à son époux, Claudio, Marianne repousse les avances de Coelio. Ce dernier fait appel à un ami libertin, Octave, pour conquérir Marianne. Si Marianne continue de refuser les avances de Coelio, elle tombe...
| Author | Raymond Queneau |
| ISBN | 0811207897 |
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From what point of view should I review the book? Evidently: from all possible points of view.
Snobbish
Needless to say, I am reading the original French edition. I can hardly believe that his delicate linguistic irony would survive translation into English. Quelle...
| Author | Paul Scarron |
| ISBN | 2070376443 |
Par une belle fin d'après-midi de l'an 1650, quelques comédiens de campagne arrivèrent dans la ville du Mans sous les yeux des bons bourgeois ébahis devant un attirail des plus hétéroclites. Tandis que " les bêtes mangèrent, l'auteur se reposa quelque temps et se mit à songer à ce qu'il dirait...
La Cantatrice chauve / La Leçon
| Author | Eugène Ionesco |
| ISBN | 2070362361 |
La cantatrice chauve / La leçon = The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays, Eugène Ionesco
La Cantatrice Chauve — translated from French as The Bald Soprano or The Bald Prima Donna — is the first play written by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco. The play opens on Mrs. Smith reciting...
| Author | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
Forcé de parcourir la route où je suis entré sans le savoir, comme j'en sortirai sans le vouloir, je l'ai jonchée d'autant de fleurs que ma gaieté me l'a permis ; encore je dis ma gaieté, sans savoir si elle est à moi plus que le reste, ni même quel est ce Moi dont je m'occupe : un assemblage informe...
You can learn important things about a great writer by reading other great writers who have imitated him. I learned about Twain’s Huckleberry Finn by reading Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate, I learned about Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d’Arthur by reading...
| Author | Laurent Gaudé |
| ISBN | 2742769323 |
Gardien de la citadelle Europe, le commandant Salvatore Piracci navigue depuis vingt ans au large des côtes italiennes, afin d'intercepter les embarcations des émigrés clandestins. Plusieurs événements viennent ébranler sa foi en sa mission et donner un nouveau sens à son existence. Dans...
| Author | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt |
کتاب «مهمان ناخوانده» نوشتهی نمایشنامهنویس مشهور فرانسوی اریک امانوئل اشمیت است. اشمیت در این نمایشنامهی کوتاه از تحصیلات خود درزمینهی فلسفه...
