Martine
| By: | Jean-Jacques Bernard |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9781783191444 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781783196432 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The Great War is over. It is the summer of 1920, in rural France. By a dusty road, a girl is sitting under the shade of an apple tree. She sees someone walking towards her. He is a young man, just back from fighting in Syria. He joins her under the tree, and a tragic love story begins.
Often compared to Chekhov, and much admired by Harold Pinter, Jean-Jacques Bernard creates a unique emotional landscape of beauty and longing, desire and disappointment.
Martine was written in 1922 and John Fowles wrote this translation for a revival at the National Theatre in 1985.