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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The political ideas of St Thomas Aquinas
En Anglais – St. Thomas Aquinas, the chief spokesman of medieval scholasticism, was born at Aquino, a tiny place near Naples and from the name of the place he received the title Aquinas. But he is better known as Thomas and his thought is known to us as Thomism. He belonged to an aristocratic Italian family which had connections with European kings and emperors. In order to be a church father and to devote his life to the cause of Christianity and study he surrendered his title “Count.” He joined the Dominican Order at the age of nineteen and for this purpose he had to fight his family. He studied in Naples, Cologne and Paris and in the last mentioned place he delivered several lectures on philosophy and theology. At the age of forty- eight he died.
Babbitt
Babbitt est l’un des très rares héros de la littérature – comme Tartuffe, Don Quichotte, Don Juan ou Harpagon – dont le patronyme est devenu quasiment un nom commun. Outre-Atlantique, un “Babbitt” désigne communément cet Américain moyen, homme d’affaires besogneux, affilié à son club, fier de son niveau de vie et de son confort, tel qu’il pouvait fleurir durant les années 20, abeille bourdonnante et docile, habitant de ces ruches que Sinclair Lewis, dans ce classique des classiques de la littérature américaine, définit ainsi : “Tours austères d’acier, de ciment et de pierre, hardies comme des rocs et délicates comme des baguettes d’argent. Ni des citadelles, ni des églises mais franchement, magnifiquement des édifices pour bureaux.”
Boule de suif
Rouen, occupé par les Prussiens, durant la guerre de 1870. Des bourgeois tentent de fuir la ville en diligence. Parmi eux se trouve une prostituée, celle qu’on surnomme Boule de suif. Tous vont abuser de sa générosité et la forcer à céder au chantage sexuel d’un Prussien. Maupassant dresse ici un portrait inégalé de l’hypocrisie et de la lâcheté humaines. Il condamne sans appel la guerre et la classe dirigeante, paternaliste et profiteuse. Il nous communique toute sa tendresse pour une fille au grand coeur, symbole d’une résistance vouée à l’échec.
Undermajordomo minor
En Anglais – Lucy Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. He is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for begetting brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as undermajordomo, he soon discovers the place harbours many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder. Undermajordomo Minor is an ink-black comedy of manners, an adventure, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour, but above all it is a love story. And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.