Giraudoux
Americannoun
noun
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Jean Giraudoux has fashioned a modern parable on the motivations of heroism and piety from the apocryphal story of the Jewess who glorified herself and saved her nation by destroying a pagan conqueror.
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"It is by their way of sneezing or of wearing down their heels that a condemned people can be recognized," wrote the French playwright Jean Giraudoux.
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Giraudoux could savor its melancholy turns and bitter twists, its clash between innocence and worldliness, its sense of mankind's dreams of perfection and descent into reality.
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What Sloan has done, albeit with lesser aesthetic power and wit, is what Anouilh and Giraudoux have done with the Greek myths.
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Giraudoux cleverly lets his characters remark how tragedy is jostling farce, or drama is encroaching on comedy.
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