Ondine (Giraudoux)

Ondine is a Play of Jean Giraudoux, created in 1939.

It is the Conte " Undine" (1811) of romantic German the Mound-Fouqué (1777-1843) which inspired Ondine in Jean Giraudoux. The topic of the Nixe (genius or nymph of water in Germanic mythology) which seeks to be incarnated in the human one is a topos marvellous tale (one finds it in the Celtic myth of Mélusine). But whereas, in these traditions, the ondine wishes to gain in this human form a supplement of heart or assumes an old curse, the heroin of Giraudoux loses by love its supernatural attributes there. There the playwright found an occasion to represent the impossible reports/ratios of the man and the woman, in a theatrical fairyhood where imagination mixes with the rigor with the traditional tragedy.

See too

  • Ondine is the first part of Gaspard of the Night , of Maurice Ravel
  • Ondine in the Germanic Mythologie
  • Ondine , poem of Aloysius Bertrand.

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