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Jean Giraudoux
Body's critical biography seeks to unlock the secrets of Giraudoux and his work, and to provide a portrait of the author and an analysis of his short stories, novels, plays, essays, and political theory.
Jean Giraudoux
An analysis of Giraudoux's novels, plays, and essays, with biographical information supplied.
The Heroine as Social Redeemer in the Plays of Jean Giraudoux
There are very few full-length critical studies of Jean Giraudoux's work in English and none dealing with his most memorable creations, his heroines. This study fills this important gap, drawing on recent research on women's history and feminism in the inter-war period, and work on gender, to provide an original evaluation of the gender politics at play in Giraudoux's theatre. Focusing on the extent to which Giraudoux's portrayal of his heroines is consistent with the inter-war years' idealization of women as saviours of society, the study examines the heroine's role in both the domestic and public spheres and explores issues of conformity and rebellion, reflecting critically on the extent to which Giraudoux's theatre formed part of the wider contemporary debate on the woman question and on the future of French society.
Authentic Fictions
This comparative study examines the prose writings of the best-known cosmopolitan authors of the Third French Republic: the modernists Jean Giraudoux, Valery Larbaud and Paul Morand, and the best-selling popular writer Maurice Dekobra. It investigates what constituted the 'cosmopolitanism' that they publicly proclaimed between the World Wars, a classification which has been widely accepted by commentators ever since. In particular, it considers whether conventional definitions of cosmopolitanism - as an unproblematic attitude of xenophilia coupled with wanderlust, or as an ecumenical humanism - can co-exist with the blind spots and prejudices of its practitioners. This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the writers' identity politics based on their approach to Otherness (gender, race, nationality, political affiliation) as well as to formal innovation. It argues that cosmopolitanism is the organizing principle for their literary and existential attempts at cultivating authentic Selfhood. Through its socio-political embeddedness, this cosmopolitanism reveals the ideological and cultural preoccupations of the day.
