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Title	:	Le Malade imaginaire
Author	:	Molière
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Classiques Larousse
Pages	:	Pages: 255 pages
Published	:	1998 by Larousse (first published 1673)
Categories	:	Classics. Plays. Cultural. France. Theatre. Drama. Fiction. European Literature. French Literature

Le Malade imaginaire

Molière

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 255 pages

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Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière. Il s'agit d'une comédie-ballet en trois actes. Dans la satire outrageante de Molière sur la médecine et ses praticiens on peut dire que le riche Argan “jouit” d'une mauvaise santé. Les laxatifs, suppositoires, saignées, et les opinions deuxième et troisième des charlatans éminents sont à l'ordre du jour et l’enfer de Toinette, sa servante qui ose lui contredire. Sa fille Angélique est amoureuse de Cléante, mais Argan veut la marier à Thomas Diafoirus, un médecin qui ne vaut rien, qui peut assurer à son beau-père des soins de santé pour la durée de sa vie. Cléante se déguise en professeur de musique pour pouvoir voir son amour, mais Béline, la deuxième épouse d’Argan, menace de les dénoncer. Une Toinette déguisée, des sages conseils de son frère Béralde, et une scène de mort truquée, vont enfin montrer à Argan qui il peut faire confiance.

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Original Title:	Le Malade imaginaire
ISBN:	2038716668 (ISBN13: 9782038716665)
Edition Language:	French
Characters:	Angélique, Argan, Béline, Louison, Béralde, Cléante, Monsieur Diafoirus, Thomas Diafoirus, Monsieur Purgon, Monsieur Fleurant

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This was the last piece from a dying Molière (the French Shakespeare for those who don't know who he is) and one of his masterpieces of irony. It was originally accompanied with music and a choreographed ballet. It is highly readable and comic and somewhat less misogynistic than his other works. It takes a sarcastic look at quack doctors and hypochondriacs and is well-loved, deservedly so, here in Paris where it is nearly always on stage somewhere.

Past few months I have been busy with translation of this piece for theatre.Very interesting and hilarious. I'm amused.

Hilarious !The play of Molière criticizes the doctors and pharmacists practices in the time of Molière where they used to diagnose, mostly, rich people with diseases they are not infected with in order to make fortune. Molière discussed in his play, love and greed in a sense of humor.I strongly recommend this play for all those studying or working in the medical field.

Crass, laboured play with an unsound premise, where the 'harsh criticism of the medical profession' of the time actually completely misses its mark. This is ironic because Moliere was apparently extremely ill with pulmonary disease and died a few hours after a performance. 'Hypochondria' is itself an unsound and dangerous diagnosis, whether made by medics or lay people, and this would have been the case at the time. Indeed, psychogenic explanations for physical diseases were often, as they are

Once you had read L'Avare and Tartüf you know everything that it's going to happen here.

Review to follow, apologies. Probably should be 5 stars, just a couple of things. (Still, I look forward to reading and rereading more Molière- I remember some from French class half a lifetime ago, especially Le bourgeois gentilhomme (So Ive been reading prose all this time!!! :) - yes, things like this happen to me, I no longer mock, I call it the cumin naming experience...))

Nice play. skipped all the songs and dances though.