Histoire d'amour (derniers chapitres)

Jean-Luc Lagarce thus begins De Saxe, roman (written in 1985), which seems to reveal before its time the plot of'Histoire d'amour (derniers chapitres).

This play is like the second in a triptych that would begin with Histoire d'amour (repérages), written in 1983, and end with Histoire d'amour (derniers chapitres), each of the plays featuring a woman and two men as characters.

This story is that of a man who has written a text.

Another man and a woman join him to discover it.

The memory of what it was like for the three of them to live together gradually unfolds.

Each will give his version of their love, its destruction, their separation and their isolated life.

The story is told in three voices, without anyone being able to guess which is the truth.

The characters reconstruct what they have become (the first man writes stories, the second is an architect and the woman a singer), what they have been through (illness, war, exile, return).

They will attempt to replay (play?) their own history, through a mechanism of repetition.

Jean-Laurent Bourel