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A French national, born in 1924 of immigrant Italian parents, Armand Gatti worked as a special correspondent in post-war Europe, Siberia, Korea, China and Latin America. He abandoned journalism in the 1950s to write for the theater. A visionary more than an ideologue, a utopian anarchist more than a partisan, Gatti engages with the themes and experiences that shape the 20th century as we know it: destruction on a global scale, injustice and oppression, displacement and survival, identity and language. His writing challenges theatrical and cultural conventions, inviting us to reassess both the world we live in and the forms we use to represent it.
The work of Armand Gatti, outstanding contemporary French experimental dramatist and director, was central to the Popular Theatre Movement in postwar France and today incorporates film, video, and journalism as well play-writing. This volume provides an eyewitness account of the man, an assessment of his work, and insight into political commitment in film and theater.
Written more than 20 years apart, the two plays of this volume reflect the author's theatrical preoccupations, his processes and approaches to writing and his ever-present dialogue between History and personal history. Translated from the French by Teresa Meadows Jillson and Emmanuel Deleage. With an introduction by Jill Meadows.
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Né en 1924, Armand Gatti est une légende vivante. Maquisard, parachutiste, journaliste, cinéaste, dramaturge, metteur en scène, écrivain, il est tout cela et bien plus encore. Mais toujours sous le signe de la poésie considérée comme une arme. Il a arpenté tous les fronts du siècle, du Guatemala à l'Irlande du Nord, de l'Algérie à Cuba. C'est à l'aune du temps universel, du monde et de son histoire qu'il faut prendre la mesure du parcours et de l'Å“uvre d'Armand Gatti. Avec lui jamais la formule de Proust stipulant que " le monde a été créé autant de fois qu'un artiste original est survenu " n'a semblé aussi juste. Monde, univers, galaxie, qu'importe le terme. Avec un appÃ...
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