Although Giraudoux intends for theater to provide the people with a language and a style, he is also aware that the reality of theater essentially involves the physical body of the actor and the spectator. Yet he uses language alone to act on the imagination of the spectator. The sensitive body is present in the voice, filtered through language, expressing the fragility of our condition through the interplay of intrigue and writing.
ISBN:978-2-406-09818-8
ISSN: 2552-1004
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09818-8.p.0053
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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Keyword: Jean Giraudoux, theater, twentieth-century literature, hygienism, Freudianism, literary theatre, the body at the theatre