Jean-Jacques Bernard (30 July 1888 â€" 14 September 1972) was a French
playwright and the chief representative of what became known as
l’école du silence or, as some critics called it, the art of the
unexpressed, in which the dialogue does not express the characters’
real attitudes. In Martine (1922), perhaps the best example of his
work, emotions are implied in gestures, facial expressions, fragments
of speech and silence. He was active from 1912 to 1939.Bernard was
born in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, the son of the dramatist
Tristan Bernard. As a Jew, he was interned for a period of months
starting in December 1941 in Compiègne, at a camp where 50,000 Jews
were deported to concentration camps.[1][2] He died in Paris, aged 84.
playwright and the chief representative of what became known as
l’école du silence or, as some critics called it, the art of the
unexpressed, in which the dialogue does not express the characters’
real attitudes. In Martine (1922), perhaps the best example of his
work, emotions are implied in gestures, facial expressions, fragments
of speech and silence. He was active from 1912 to 1939.Bernard was
born in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise, the son of the dramatist
Tristan Bernard. As a Jew, he was interned for a period of months
starting in December 1941 in Compiègne, at a camp where 50,000 Jews
were deported to concentration camps.[1][2] He died in Paris, aged 84.
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