Résumé
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Paul Mounet's name remains indissociable from that of his older brother, Mounet-Sully, who was his partner for more than twenty-five years at the Comédie-Française. This biography - the first ever devoted to him - is based mainly on a study of private archives consisting of several thousand documents, none of which have ever been published before. Beyond the clichés which have too freely been applied to him, here we discover a man of conviction generous, fervent and discreet a hero of the Franco-Prussian War, a doctor and teacher of dramatic art revered by his pupils. But he was also an inspired actor, with a physique like an antique sculpture, a noble and expressive face and a beautiful persuasive voice, who was attached to the ideal of 'an art of deep and widespread humanity'. His astonishing modern, multiform interpretations were enlivened by a lyricism which he defined in this way: "Not 'feverish gymnastics of the larynx', rather 'the expansion of the soul through faith'." In the evening of his life, he confided to a close friend: "We, the Ancients, were born atop a high mountain from up there, we could converse with the stars."
L'auteur - Anne Penesco
Anne Penesco est professeure émérite à l'université Lumière - Lyon 2. Spécialiste de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècles, ses recherches portent sur la musique, la littérature et le théâtre. Elle travaille depuis une dizaine d'années sur l'univers sonore de Marcel Proust auquel elle a consacré plusieurs articles ainsi que l'ouvrage : Proust et le violon intérieur.
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Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Anne Penesco |
Collection | Histoire |
Parution | 15/10/2009 |
Format | 14.5 x 23.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 770g |
EAN13 | 9782204088688 |
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