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Le Misanthrope (Petits Classiques Larousse) (French Edition) [Kindle Edition]

Molière
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Le Misanthrope est une comédie sombre de 1666, dont l’intrigue paraît simple : un homme essaie d’obtenir un rendez-vous en tête à tête avec la femme qu’il aime – et n’y parvient pas. Cet homme excessif, Alceste, défend la sincérité absolue. Mais la jeune femme, Célimène, qui reçoit bien des hommes dans son salon, aime plaire… Qui a tort et qui a raison, des inadaptés sincères ou des hypocrites trop bien adaptés ? Entre le rire et les larmes, Molière se garde bien de nous donner une réponse.

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Presents a comedy about Alceste, who openly champions morals, but is in love with Celimene, who embodies immorality, and when she rejects him, he tries to isolate himself from the world and find a place where only goodness exists.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 603 KB
  • Print Length: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Larousse (13 April 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language French
  • ASIN: B005OJCNWK
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #332,531 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a standard edition of a classic play, at a very good price. A minor point: the cover shown on the main listing (showing a very cross cat face) is different from that on the book you get; and it is different again from the cover you see if you click on the image to expand it.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Play 30 April 2009
Format:Paperback
This is a superb play which make slight of human folly and hypocrisy and holds some relevance today. It is written in the 17th century this is regarded as Molière's best work. The play is about a man who passes judgment on the hypocrisy of the other protagonists without seeing his folly and inconsistency of judgement.

The 1992 edition, of which I am writing, is the 1876 Henri van Laun translation and has a very basic introduction and no notes to text.
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Martin Crimp has taken Moliere's the Misanthrope and turned it into a tale of whiners and one-dimensional characters. The entire play reeks of self-absorption. There is no arch to any of the characters. They each remain the same throughout the entire piece, and no one learns anything in the end of all of it. The play consists of one scene after another of characters who are out to get each other and genuinely do not like one another. It leaves the reader (or audience) with a feeling of hatred towards all of the characters. There is not a single character for a genuine feeling human being to identify with. They are all so self-obsessed and shallow that they do not even think to stop and deal with the problems they have with each other. Even Alceste, who claims to be fed up with all the hypocrisy, leads his own life in hypocrisy because he is too involved in himself to listen to his girlfriend and actually put a little faith in someone besides himself. Crimp needs to go back and revise to have at least one scene in which there is not a major argument. At the moment, there is not a single point at which the audience can relax. They are too caught up in all the tensions between all the characters.
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