Le discours aux morts dans « La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu » de Giraudoux
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2005
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
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The Speech to the Dead in Jean Giraudoux's « The Trojan War Will Not Take Place »
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The "Speech to the Dead" delivered by Hector in Jean Giraudoux's play The Trojan War Will Not Take
Place (1935) exemplifies a cultural adaptation achieved by moving the relevance of the interwar period
into the world of antiquity and the world of Homer. In 1935 Hector's speech expresses the protest of the
whole generation against the First World War. But a closer look at this famous scene will demonstrate
that Giraudoux actually defines the nature of the theatrical word which enables what is absent from the
stage to appear on the stage, and which gets addressed to the unknown, mysterious interlocutors.
Therefore the explication of these two tirades unveils a peculiar theory of the theatrical language.
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2006, vol. 33, pp. 3- 16.
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978-83-232-2145-6
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0137-2475