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Cyrano De Bergerac
Cyrano De Bergerac
Author: Edmond Rostand
'Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ...My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9782080705266
ISBN-10: 2080705261
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Flammarion
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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"Cyrano", written about 1897, is (at least) two differing dramas: first, a 20th-Century play in which the proponent, a soldier, does not object to killing people he does not like; and second, the proponent is an 18th-Century poet lost in his love of a woman (and a relative, to boot) he believes cannot love him. Act I is the 20th-Century play; the rest is the 18th-Century. Reading the play increases exponentially one's appreciation of the efforts of Jose Ferrer in the 1950s movie, for which Ferrer was awarded an Oscar and which movie is still available on DVD and late-night TV.


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