Kean: Uno actúa para mentir, para mentirse, para ser aquello que no se puede ser y porque uno tiene suficiente de ser aquello que se es. Uno actúa para no conocerse y porque uno se conoce demasiado. Uno representa a los héroes porque se es cobarde y a los santos porque se es perverso. Uno interpreta a los asesinos por morirse de ganas de matar al prójimo; uno actúa porque se es mentiroso de nacimiento. Uno actúa porque se ama la verdad y porque se la detesta. Uno actúa porque se enloquecería si no se actuase. ¡Actuar! ¿Acaso sé, yo, cuándo es que actúo? ¿Acaso hay un instante en que yo deje de actuar? Este libro no es más que la adaptación de la aclamada obra de teatro "Kean" creada por Alexandre Dumas (El Conde de Monte Cristo).
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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy. He declined the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far-reaching influence on our age." In the years around the time of his death, however, existentialism declined in French philosophy and was overtaken by structuralism, represented by Levi-Strauss and, one of Sartre's detractors, Michel Foucault.
This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils. Alexandre Dumas, père (French for "father", akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. Dumas also wrote plays and magazine articles, and was a prolific correspondent. Dumas was of Haitian descent and mixed-race. His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, a black slave. At age 14 Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was educated in a military academy and entered the military for what became an illustrious career. Dumas' father's aristocratic rank helped young Alexandre Dumas acquire work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, then as a writer, finding early success. He became one of the leading authors of the French Romantic Movement, in Paris. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
