O’Flaherty, Kathleen.

Paul Claudel and The Tidings Brought to Mary. Preface by Paul Claudel.

First Edition. Cork/ Oxford, Cork University Press/ B.H. Blackwell, 1938. 18.5cm x 12.5cm. ii, (2) 141 pages. Frontispiece photograph of Claudel. Original softcover (paperback). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Includes for Example:/ The Plot of ‘Tidings’/ The Historical Background/ Violaine and Pierre De Craon/ Violaine and Anne Vercors/ Violaine and Mara/ Violaine and Jacques Hury/ Violaine’s Sacrifice/ Lyricism/ Symbolism and Imagery/ Poetic Theory and Affiliation/ The Message of Paul Claudel/ Tete d’Or/ L’Echange/ L’Otage/ Le Pere humilie/ La Ville/ Partage de Midi/ Le Pain dur/ The Satin Slipper etc.

Paul Claudel (6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism. The most famous of his plays are Le Partage de Midi (″The Break of Noon”, 1906), L’Annonce Faite a Marie (″The Tidings Brought to Mary”, 1910) focusing on the themes of sacrifice, oblation and sanctification through the tale of a young medieval French peasant woman who contracts leprosy, and Le Soulier de Satin (″The Satin Slipper”, 1931), his deepest exploration of human and divine love and longing set in the Spanish empire of the siglo de oro, which was staged at the Comédie-Française in 1943. In later years he wrote texts to be set to music, most notably “Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher” (″Joan of Arc at the Stake”, 1939), an “opera-oratario” with music by Arthur Honegger. (Wikipedia).

Kathleen O’Flaherty was a Professor at UCC.

• Keywords: Irish History · Irish Literature
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 41487AB

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