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La comédie de la comédie / La comédie des arts / Poèmes à jouer
La comédie de la comédie comprend des parodies de certains usages désuets (les conventions bourgeoises, les «apartés», etc.) ainsi que quelques fables modernes, comme Faust et Yorick.La deuxième partie du livre, La comédie des arts, loin de prétendre se moquer de la peinture ou de la musique (on sait la fascination qu'elles exercent sur l'auteur), se borne à faire rire ou sourire - parfois avec tendresse et nostalgie - de la façon dont, parfois, on en parle.La troisième, Poèmes à jouer, est une gerbe imprévue où éclatent les dons contradictoires de Jean Tardieu, son humour et sa profondeur. Pour lui la poésie est, à la fois, la solitude et la rencontre, le livre et le théâtre. Elle passe de l'un à l'autre en ouvrant toutes les portes.
344 pages, Pocket Book
First published April 3, 1990
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About the author
Jean Tardieu
105 books8 followersHe earned a degree in literature and worked for a publishing house. He published several poetry collections in the 1930s before starting to write for the stage. After World War Two, Tardieu entered the world of radio and worked his way to head of dramatic programming and then director of programs at France-Music. The quality and success of French National Public Radio after World War Two has been attributed largely to Jean Tardieu.
Tardieu's works mingled with the ideals of the French New Theatre and used comedy to pick apart more traditional theatre. He is often associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.
Some of his work has been translated into English, including:
The Underground Lovers, and other experimental plays
Going...Going...Gone! The Client Dies Twice: Three Plays (Black Apollo Press, ISBN 1-900355-21-3)
The River Underground: Selected Poems & Prose
Some of his work is present in Julio Cortázar's 1963 novel Rayuela (Hopscotch). Tardieu's work is included in Chapter 152, entitled "The Abuse of Consciousness".
The French composer Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six, who was a harp student of Tardieu's mother Caroline Luigini and who first met Tardieu as a child, set several of Tardieu's poems to music notably in the "Concerto des Vaines Paroles" for Baritone Voice, Piano and Orchestra and in the cycle "Trois Poèmes de Jean Tardieu" for Voice and Piano.
He was a great friend of Jean René Bazaine who turned his poem L'Ombre, la branche into a fine illustrated art book.( Maeght Éditeur, 1977: 150 ex. with 16 colored litho's, 50 ex. with three added litho's.)
Tardieu's works mingled with the ideals of the French New Theatre and used comedy to pick apart more traditional theatre. He is often associated with the Theatre of the Absurd.
Some of his work has been translated into English, including:
The Underground Lovers, and other experimental plays
Going...Going...Gone! The Client Dies Twice: Three Plays (Black Apollo Press, ISBN 1-900355-21-3)
The River Underground: Selected Poems & Prose
Some of his work is present in Julio Cortázar's 1963 novel Rayuela (Hopscotch). Tardieu's work is included in Chapter 152, entitled "The Abuse of Consciousness".
The French composer Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six, who was a harp student of Tardieu's mother Caroline Luigini and who first met Tardieu as a child, set several of Tardieu's poems to music notably in the "Concerto des Vaines Paroles" for Baritone Voice, Piano and Orchestra and in the cycle "Trois Poèmes de Jean Tardieu" for Voice and Piano.
He was a great friend of Jean René Bazaine who turned his poem L'Ombre, la branche into a fine illustrated art book.( Maeght Éditeur, 1977: 150 ex. with 16 colored litho's, 50 ex. with three added litho's.)
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