"Art"

by Yasmina Reza

Overview

« Mon ami Serge a acheté un tableau. C'est une toile d'environ un mètre soixante sur un mètre vingt, peinte en blanc. Le fond est blanc et si on cligne des yeux, on peut apercevoir de fins liserés blancs transversaux. Mon ami Serge est un ami depuis longtemps. »

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782226200174
Publisher:	Albin Michel
Publication date:	06/16/2009
Series:	Littérature française
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	151 KB
Language:	French

About the Author

Yasmina Reza a publié, aux éditions Albin Michel : Conversations après un enterrement (1987, théâtre), La Traversée de l'hiver (1990, théâtre), Art (1994, théâtre), L'Homme du hasard (1995, théâtre), Hammerklavier (1997, roman), Une désolation (1999, roman), Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz (2000, scénario), Trois Versions de la vie (2000, théâtre), Adam Aberberg (2003, roman), Une pièce espagnole (2004, théâtre), Dans la luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer (2005, roman), Nulle part (2005, roman).
En 2007, elle a reçu le grand prix de littérature Henri Gal - prix de l'Institut de France, décerné sur proposition de l'Académie française, pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.

Editorial Reviews

That such a simple plot can throw up such profound and meaty ideas about the rules that dictate art and friendship is a real treat. Reza and Hampton have an acute ear for the idiocies, trivia and petty assaults that pepper the conversation between friends...The real pleasures come from Reza's creation of three beautifully defined, original characters...

Mail (London)

...wildly funny, naughtily provocative...

NY Post

Anyone looking for a play that is funny, sophisticated, stylish, stimulating and moving should go to 'ART'.

Independent (London)

...a nonstop cross-fire of crackling language, serious issues of life and art expressed in outbursts that sound like Don Rickles with a degree from the Sorbonne...Reza is a fiendishly clever writer...'ART' sounds like a marriage of Molière and Woody Allen...

Newsweek

In October I called it a minor classic. Let's change that to classic comedy, period.

London Times

This is not some irrelevant fringe production; it is a major intervention in the cultural debate of the country by people who are keen to keep the reactionary tides running. It is probably the most sustained attack on modernism yet seen on the British stage, and it represents a stern challenge to the brilliant success story of British contemporary art.” —The Guardian

“Not only brings to the stage a topical debate, it makes it invigorating, touching and finally disturbing. This dark comedy, translated from the French, in sparkling form, explores its themes through a rift between friends.” —Financial Times

“A remarkably wise, witty and intelligent comedy . . . has touched a universal nerve.” —The Times

“Chic, short, and wickedly, perceptively funny, it's the perfect West End play.” —Nick Curtis, Evening Standard

“Art, which has been translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, is filled from first curtain to ending with a dazzling array of language.” —Iris Fanger, Christian Science Monitor

“It's an actor's dream, a nonstop cross-fire of crackling language, serious issues of life and art expressed in outbursts that sound like Don Rickles with a degree from the Sorbonne. Brilliantly translated by Christopher Hampton, . . . Art takes that yawny old bore, the play of ideas, and jolts it to life.” —Jack Kroll, Newsweek

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