Giraudoux, Jean
Giraudoux, Jean ( 1882 – 1944 ),French diplomat, novelist, and playwright; his first novel, Suzanne et le Pacifique, was published in 1921 . In 1928 the novel Siegfried et le Limousin ( 1922 ) was successfully adapted for the stage. Thereafter the drama became the most suitable medium for Giraudoux's gifts of irony and paradox; his plots are frequently stylized and modernized versions of biblical or classical legend. His plays include Amphitryon 38 ( 1929 ), Judith ( 1931 ), La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu ( 1935 ; trans. 1955 by C. Fry as Tiger at the Gates), Ondine ( 1939 ), and Pour Lucrèce ( 1953 , trans. by Fry as Duel of Angels, 1958 ).
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