Roger Nimier au théâtre : tradition et insolence
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Revue d’Histoire littéraire de la France. varia
1 – 2017, 117e année, n° 1 - Author: Dambre (Marc)
- Abstract: Roger Nimier wrote about the French theatre of the day in some one hundred columns between the weekly journals Opéra (1951–52) and Le Nouveau Candide (1961–62). In the tradition of Léautaud's Théâtre de Maurice Boissard, this criticism aims to be trenchant and irreverent toward long-established positions. A reactionary orientation and the rejection of didacticism lead him to attack socially engaged plays and undervalue the Nouveau Théâtre. Not without dandyism, Nimier favors the text and denounces vulgarity, boredom, and pretension.
- Pages: 135 to 148
- Journal: Journal of French Literary History
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- EAN: 9782406067016
- ISBN: 978-2-406-06701-6
- ISSN: 2105-2689
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06701-6.p.0135
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 01-27-2017
- Periodicity: Quarterly
- Language: French
- Keyword: Roger Nimier (1925–1962), theater column, Léautaud, literature, periodicals, Hussards, dandyism.