GIRAUDOUX/ULB ELECTRE NP (Old Edition), Jean Giraudoux

In Electre, Giraudoux takes up the myth of the Atreides, so dear to the Greek Tragedians, and reinvents the story of the woman who armed her brother Orestes' hand to avenge Agamemnon's murder, at the cost of matricide. This play of unrestrained fantasy, which oscillates between classicism and baroque, and in which tragedy, vaudeville and detective investigation combine, marks the peak of his theatrical art. Through Electre's fight for truth and justice, Giraudoux denounces ordinary bad faith, perpetuated lies and iniquitous little arrangements that lead men, without even being aware of it, to accept the unacceptable.