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Bernard was born on July 30, 1888 in Enghien-les-Bains, the son of the dramatist Tristan Bernard.
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Les enfants jouent (French Edition)
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L'épicier (French Edition)
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Martine: pièce en cinq tableaux (French Edition)
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THE SULKY FIRE: FIVE PLAYS: THE SULKY FIRE, MARTINE, THE SPRINGTIME OF OTHERS, INVITATION TO A VOYAGE, THE UNQUIET SPIRIT,
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Nationale 6: Pièce en Cinq Actes
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Jean Jacques Bernard
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Bernard was a contributor to Figaro, Le Matin, Gil Blas, and La Revue Française. Two of his early plays, Le Voyage à deux (1909; "Journey for Two") and La Joie du sacrifice (1912; "The Joy of Sacrifice"), attracted attention when produced in Paris before World War I. After the war he emerged as one of the most promising of a group of young playwrights who were infusing new life into the French theater. In his plays he avoids direct exposition, preferring to dramatize the delicate nuances of human experience and emotion through a language of suggestion. His style has been called the "art of the unexpressed. " The plays show a remarkable insight into feminine nature and a rare understanding of the tragic undercurrents of life. He also published an account of his imprisonment in the Royallieu concentration camp at Compiègne, Compiegne, Le Camp de la mort lente (1944; The Camp of Slow Death, 1945). His memoirs, entitled Mon ami, le théâtretheatre ("My Friend, the Theater"), appeared in 1958. Bernard died on Sept. 12, 1972, in Paris.
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Bernard's most noteworthy plays are: Le Feu qui reprend mal (1921; The Sulky Fire, 1926), Martine (1922; Martine, 1927), L'Invitation au voyage (1924; Glamour, 1927), Le Printemps des autres (1924; The Springtime of Others, 1926), and L'Ame en peine (1926; The Unquiet Spirit, 1928). In Martine, perhaps the best example of his work, emotions are implied in gestures, facial expressions, fragments of speech and silence.
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Nationale 6: Pièce en Cinq Actes
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Les enfants jouent (French Edition)
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Martine: pièce en cinq tableaux (French Edition)
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- L'épicier (French Edition)
- THE SULKY FIRE: FIVE PLAYS: THE SULKY FIRE, MARTINE, THE SPRINGTIME OF OTHERS, INVITATION TO A VOYAGE, THE UNQUIET SPIRIT,
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Nationale 6: Pièce en Cinq Actes
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