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First and foremost, I am quite nervous about this first-time post. So, hello to you all, and please be gentle with me.

I discovered this comm only today and it has successfully distracted me from exam-studying for seven plus hours. No mean feat! I am very grateful. However, I also fear I am turning into Stanislawa Przybyszewska, so I've decided to make this post and then slowly back away from the Robespierre/French Revolution related websites.

While we're on the subject of that wonderful, wonderful man, however...I assume most of you will have already read this, but just in case you haven't, I wanted to link you all to this incredible review written by Hilary Mantel of a collection of Robespierre's essays. It actually doesn't discuss the collection much, if at all, and is more a meandering commentary on Robespierre's various historical depictions. I cannot describe how much I enjoyed reading it. I actually teared up at the end. I haven't been this obsessed since I stumbled across Arthur Rimbaud's poetry.

And, on that note, happy obsessing, all. Having found this comm, I feel a little less alone now in my insane adoration. So again, thankyou. <3

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[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Ah, there's this, online - it's an awful way to read a book/play (specially one as oddly dreamlike as this play) and every so often there'll be a missing page for copyright reasons, but may give you a flavour of it http://books.google.com/books?id=gQVtUX7hqUQC&dq=the+danton+case&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=OgU0MHZcpZ&sig=y55lNgqUvaga_Ftye2c1vogkIH0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPP7,M1
I saw an adaptation of The Danton Affair onstage, which had Brian Cox and Ian McDiarmid in it (or, the original Hannibal Lecktor and the Emperor of the Universe, as U.S. cinemagoers probably know them!) - Brian Cox also played Danton in 'Danton's Death' back in 1981 (too long ago for me) : I preferred Cox's performance to Depardieu's, because Cox came across as more intelligent (Gerard is a bit bovine!). I do like the film, though, despite all the issues I have with it - it does still have enough of the play in it to make it ambiguous - maybe more ambiguous than Wajda intended?

[everworld2662.livejournal.com]

Haaa, thankyou! I have taken a look at that and I think the play looks absolutely intriguing, but as you say, a ghastly way to read it. XD

You are right about Gerard Depardieu. XD "Bovine" is the perfect word to describe him, and perhaps why I couldn't fit him and his character together as perfectly as I wanted to. My viewing of Danton was probably not the best--classroom situations are generally not excellent for this kind of thing--so I may have to watch it again, and see what I get a second time round. ^^