For many fans of literature, the name of the French writer, playwright, screenwriter Françoise Sagan is associated with deep sensuality, frankness in conveying the most intimate, secret topics and aspirations of a person, first of all, a woman. Her works with a keen sense of lust for life, heart-breaking intrigues and adventures of the heroines instantly became bestsellers.
The play "The Hounded Horse" (1966) stands out for its irony and even sarcasm in relation to the...
For many fans of literature, the name of the French writer, playwright, screenwriter Françoise Sagan is associated with deep sensuality, frankness in conveying the most intimate, secret topics and aspirations of a person, first of all, a woman. Her works with a keen sense of lust for life, heart-breaking intrigues and adventures of the heroines instantly became bestsellers.
The play "The Hounded Horse" (1966) stands out for its irony and even sarcasm in relation to the canons of life invented by the people themselves, behind which hides the triviality of family relations, the reluctance to go beyond such a familiar comfort zone. In order to emphasize this idea, the author transfers the events of the play to a typical English estate, in which an elegant couple - Lord Henry-James Chesterfield and his wife Felicity - have been living for many years. Each of them leads his party impeccably, as befits an English aristocratic family. Lord Henry is happy to philosophize about his doom to a dull and meaningless life, which, in his opinion, is the ideal of a respectable Englishman, behind which he skillfully hides extreme loneliness, like the rest of the family.
It seems that time, life has stopped in this house... Even the arrival of Priscilla's daughter with her future son-in-law, now Parisian Hubert Darcet, does not disturb the established rituals too much. Only the appearance of Coralie, Hubert's girlfriend, whom he presents to everyone as his sister, breaks the stability of the existence of the inhabitants of the estate. Sincere, frank, open to the world of adventures and transformations, free from all kinds of dogmas and prohibitions, full of life and sensuality, she stirs up unknown feelings and desires in each of them...
