Talk:Ondine (play)

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I seem to be the first person to pay attention to this work (a labor of love, by the way). I am working on plot summary and more theme material to be added very soon. I would welcome feedback and/or mentoring.Foobarnix (talk) 00:50, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Note: The theme section is based on the French Wikipedia article. I am working on including a translation and giving proper citation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Foobarnix (talk • contribs) 01:02, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

the French version of this article

here is the translation of the French version. I have adapted it somewhat in the Theme section of the article.

Ondine is a play by Jean Giraudoux, created April 27, 1939 at the Athenaeum Theatre.

This is the tale Undine (1811) of the German Romantic La Motte Fouqué (1777-1843) that inspired Jean Giraudoux's Ondine. The theme of the nix (engineering or water nymph in Germanic mythology) who seeks to incarnate in the human is a typical fairy tale, and is also found in Celtic myth of Melusine. But whereas in these traditions, the mermaid wants to win in this human form more soul or accepts an old curse, Giraudoux's heroine loses its supernatural attributes of love. The playwright found his chance to represent the relations impossible for man and woman, in a theatrical fantasy where fantasy mingles with the rigor of classical tragedy

--Foobarnix (talk) 23:49, 30 August 2010 (UTC)