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Introducing the English-language audience to the work of one of France’s leading contemporary dramatists—winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France—these plays offer vivid insights into French Jewish life in post-Holocaust Europe.

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All three plays in this volume are infused by the tragedy of the broken family, and Grumberg masterfully deploys comedy in his dialogue as a way of dealing with tragic memories that defy expression. Grumberg effectively invented the genre of post-war French Jewish theatre, fusing the French language and the Jewish experience in a strange and innovative way, and giving voice to a French Jewish identity that goes beyond the traditional Republican prescription. -- Natasha Lehrer * Times Literary Supplement *

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Three French Jewish Plays of Jean-Claude Grumberg: A Theatre of Memory and Accommodation
  • Jean-Claude Grumberg: A Timeline of Key Works and Life Events
  • The Plays
  • The Workplace
  • On the Way to the Promised Land: A Dental Tragedy
  • Mama’s Coming Back, Poor Orphan
  • An Interview with Jean-Claude Grumberg
  • Selected Bibliography

JeanClaude Grumberg

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      Publisher University of Texas Press
      Published 15 July 2014
      ISBN-13 9780292754584
      978-0292754584
      ISBN-10 0292754582
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Introducing the English-language audience to the work of one of France’s leading contemporary dramatists—winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France—these plays offer vivid insights into French Jewish life in post-Holocaust Europe.

      Trade Review
      All three plays in this volume are infused by the tragedy of the broken family, and Grumberg masterfully deploys comedy in his dialogue as a way of dealing with tragic memories that defy expression. Grumberg effectively invented the genre of post-war French Jewish theatre, fusing the French language and the Jewish experience in a strange and innovative way, and giving voice to a French Jewish identity that goes beyond the traditional Republican prescription. -- Natasha Lehrer * Times Literary Supplement *

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Three French Jewish Plays of Jean-Claude Grumberg: A Theatre of Memory and Accommodation
      • Jean-Claude Grumberg: A Timeline of Key Works and Life Events
      • The Plays
      • The Workplace
      • On the Way to the Promised Land: A Dental Tragedy
      • Mama’s Coming Back, Poor Orphan
      • An Interview with Jean-Claude Grumberg
      • Selected Bibliography

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