The French author and diplomat Paul Louis Charles Claudel (1868-1955) is best known for his plays, in which he explored the relationship between man, the universe, and the divine in a highly poetic an...
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The plays of Paul Claudel are unique. Neither a naturalist nor a realist, Claudel veered away from the kind of theater found in the work of Henri Becque, Eugène Brieux-Georges de Porto-Riche, a...
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Paul Claudel brought high distinction to France in his two careers as a writer and a politician. His collected works fill twenty-six volumes; his notebooks take up seven volumes; and his correspondenc...
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