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Henry Popkin
Four modern plays (second series)
En anglais – 1°) IBSEN – Rosmersholm 2°) WILDE – The importance of being earnest 3°) ROSTAND – Cirano de Bergerac 4°) GORKI – The lower depths
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Le Démon du Bien
« L’amour est gâché non seulement par le mariage, mais par la seule possibilité du mariage. Le spectre du mariage, agitant ses chaînes – les chaînes du mariage, il va sans dire ! – empoisonne tout amour avec une jeune fille. À l’instant où je me dis que je pourrais… non, je ne veux même pas prononcer ces mots… mon amour pour vous s’affaiblit, comme sous l’effet maléfique d’un charme. Si je chasse cette idée funeste, aussitôt il se redresse et pète le feu. »
The Golden Egg
En Anglais – In The Golden Egg, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor shop-keeping violation committed by the mayor's future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he has little choice but to comply. Then Brunetti's wife, Paola, comes to him with a request of her own. The mentally handicapped man who worked at their dry cleaner has just died of a sleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing him, or helping him.Brunetti begins to investigate the death and is surprised when he finds nothing on the man: no birth certificate, no passport, no driver's license, no credit cards. As far as the Italian government is concerned, he never existed. Stranger still, the dead man's mother refuses to speak to the police, and assures Brunetti that her son's identification papers were stolen in a burglary.
Adam Runaway
En Anglais – « It is 1721 and young Adam Hanaway, devastated by his father’s sudden death, leaves England to seek his fortune in Lisbon, where his uncle is a successful merchant. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family’s welcome is cool, and Adam’s rise to the top is thwarted by Bartolomeu Gomes, his uncle’s treacherous clerk. » « As Adam attempts to overcome these obstacles he is handicapped by a certain personal trait. Not, he insists, that he is a coward exactly, but he is inclined to boldly put himself in dangerous situations and then at the last minute run away from them – hence the nickname given to him by friends who had observed this failing once too often. » « While Adam’s mother and sisters wait in England for him to rescue them from poverty, Adam is preoccupied with more compelling women: the beautiful, older half-Portuguese lady Maria Beatriz Hutchinson; the spoiled, rich Gabriella Lowther; and his charming young cousin Nancy. But Adam commits a social faux pas so severe he forever ruins his chances for making a good match – yet no one dares tell him what he has done wrong! » « Adam certainly has a lot to learn. …
Jusqu’au bout sur nos Messerschmitt
La vie du Général Galland se confond, de 1934 à 1945, avec l'histoire de l'aviation de chasse allemande. II est un de ses premiers pilotes alors que, sous l’impulsion de Goering, elle se reconstitue dans la clandestinité. Dès lors, il participera à toutes les actions. As de cette arme, pilote aux innombrables victoires, il finira par en être le commandant en chef. Avec ses Messerschmitt, il participe à la guerre d’Espagne, au « blitzkrieg » de Pologne, à la campagne de France. Rien ne résiste plus à l'aviation allemande qui domine totalement le ciel. Mais les grands raids sur Londres portent à l'armée aérienne du Reich un premier coup qui, plus tard, se révélera fatal. Enivré par sa puissance, ne rêvant que massacres et représailles, Hitler commet la folie de sacrifier les chasseurs aux bombardiers…