The Man of Destiny - Couverture souple

Shaw, George Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444420372 ISBN 13 : 9781444420371

Editeur : Aeterna, 2025

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In a modest inn in northern Italy, the newly celebrated general Napoleon lounges after his victory, confident in both his strategies and his destiny. But his evening is disrupted when a lone, veiled woman arrives bearing a stolen packet of dispatches. What begins as a demand for return becomes a duel of minds, as she parries his logic with daring wit, hinting at secrets even he should fear to uncover. As suspicion and admiration swirl between them, she reveals layers of identity, purpose, and cunning—ultimately forcing Napoleon to confront a challenge he never saw coming. This razor-sharp one-act play crackles with irony, intellect, and the intoxicating tension of masked motives. Shaw deftly juggles political intrigue, gender subversion, and the personal ambitions that lie behind great men. The “man of destiny” is tested not on the battlefield but in the parlor of conversation, where words become weapons and revelation threatens reputation. In this brilliant encounter, every glance, every line, shifts the balance of power—and exposes the fragile illusions of authority.

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was a Nobel-Prize and Oscar-winning Irish playwright, critic and socialist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics stretched from the 1880s to his death in 1950. Originally earning his way as an influential London music and theatre critic, Shaw's greatest gift was for the modern drama. Strongly influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he successfully introduced a new realism into English-language drama. He wrote more than 60 plays, among them Man and Superman, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Major Barbara, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Pygmalion. With his range from biting contemporary satire to historical allegory, Shaw became the leading comedy dramatist of his generation and one of the most important playwrights in the English language since the 17th century.

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur

The twelfth of May, 1796, in north Italy, at Tavazzano, on the road from Lodi to Milan. The afternoon sun is blazing serenely over the plains of Lombardy, treating the Alps with respect and the anthills with indulgence, not incommoded by the basking of the swine and oxen in the villages nor hurt by its cool reception in the churches, but fiercely disdainful of two hordes of mischievous insects which are the French and Austrian armies. Two days before, at Lodi, the Austrians tried to prevent the French from crossing the river by the narrow bridge there; but the French, commanded by a general aged 27, Napoleon Bonaparte, who does not understand the art of war, rushed the fireswept bridge, supported by a tremendous cannonade in which the young general assisted with his own hands.

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