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Tragedies
Illustrations inspired by the great tragic figures, I wanted to express in one eye extreme emotions described by the texts.
Électre
Anouilh : “You were so nice when you were a child”
Sartre : “Ah! as I am free. And which superb absence that my heart.”
Giraudoux : “That is called the dawn”
Yourcenar : “The dropping of the masks”
O’Neill : “Mourning Becomes Electra”
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Eurydice
Anouilh : “We will be so unhappy!”
![Nous allons être très malheureux !](http://www.gabianspirit.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_0085.jpg)
Hamlet
Müller : “I lay down and I heard the world goes round at the quick step of putrefaction”
“yesterday I stopped killing myself”
“I want to be a woman”
“I was MacBeth”
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Antigone
Cocteau : “I will die young, good.”
Anouilh : “It’s good for men to believe in ideas and die for them.”
Brecht : “Perhaps it is the desire for a full suffering.”
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Medea
Anouilh : “You will be alone, to the end of time, as this minute.”
![Tu seras seule, jusqu'au bout des temps, comme en cette minute.](http://www.gabianspirit.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_0094.jpg)
Œdipe
Apollinaire : “It’s high time to light up the stars”
Cocteau : “gods exist: it’s the devil”
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