The World of Jean Anouilh

The World of Jean Anouilh by Leonard Cabell Pronko presents the French dramatist as one of the twentieth century’s most incisive playwrights, a writer whose enduring reputation rests on his exploration of moral compromise, political expediency, and the tension between purity and complicity. While Anouilh’s later works after 1960 tended toward whimsy or self-conscious mannerism, his major contributions remain the serious dramas of the 1940s and the bitter comedies of the postwar decade—*Anti...