death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
saint-germain-en-laye , france 17 march 1970 paris , france belgium 19 november 1886 fernand crommelynck
 fernand crommelynck dramatist
fernand crommelynck

fernand crommelynck -lrb- 19 november 1886 -- 17 march 1970 -rrb- was a belgian dramatist .
his work is known for farces in which commonplace weaknesses are developed into monumental obsessions .
he was born into a family of actors , the child of a french mother and a belgian father and he himself was also an actor .
his son aldo crommelynck , 1931 -- 2009 , was a renowned master printmaker , who worked with many major artists of the twentieth century .
in his earliest works crommelynck already demonstrated the grasp of style and content that in his maturity culminated in works of great poetic force .
the dramatic structure in `` nous n'irons plus au bois '' -lrb- 1906 -rrb- , `` le sculpteur de masques '' -lrb- 1908 -rrb- and `` le marchand de regrets '' -lrb- 1913 -rrb- , was already based on the logical development of an absurd premise .
crommelynck 's masterpiece was `` le cocu magnifique '' -lrb- 1920 -rrb- , a ` lyrical farce ' on the theme of a lover 's jealousy .
staged with constructivist sets by vsevolod meyerhold -- the first of their kind -- the theatre play was such a hit that crommelynck was able to give up acting and devote himself to writing .
in `` tripes d'or '' -lrb- 1926 -rrb- he satirized the passion for money and the spurious prestige it confers , while in `` carine , ou la jeune fille folle de son âme '' -lrb- 1929 -rrb- he contrasted love and sensuality in the story of a chaste young girl who is faithful to her ideals of love to the bitter end .
both in language and dramatic technique , crommelynck has been one of the most lyrical and original writers of the 20th century theatre .
