I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!

L'Hurluburlu Paris Comédie des Champs-Elysées 5 February 1959. La Vicomtesse d'Eristal n'a pas reçu son balai mécanique: Souvenirs d'un jeune homme (Paris: La Table Ronde 1987). Plays volume 1 (New York: Hill & Wang 1958); La Sauvage translated by Hill as Restless Heart (London: Methuen 1957); Eurydice translated by Kitty Black as Point of Departure (London: S.

Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (French: [anuj]; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.