Description
Book SynopsisIntroducing 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 ReviewAll 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
