Two Plays

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Written more than 20 years apart, the two plays of this volume reflect the author's theatrical preoccupations, his processes and approaches to writing and his ever-present dialogue between History and personal history. Translated from the French by Teresa Meadows Jillson and Emmanuel Deleage. With an introduction by Jill Meadows.

Author Bio

Armand Gatti was born in Monaco in 1924 to Italian immigrants, Gatti graduated from the Monaco lycee in 1941. In 1942, he departed from Monaco and took up with the French Resistance. The G.M.R. (the Garde Mobile Regionale, the national police under the German occupation) arrested Gatti and condemned him to death. He was repatriated and deported to the Linderman camp near Hamburg. The same year he escaped, managing to get to Great Britain, where he coined the parachute regiment of the Special Air Service. Over the years, he has written journalism, poetry, fiction, movies and over 50 plays.