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About the Book

Happy Are the Happy

written by Yasmina Reza, translated by John Cullen

The internationally acclaimed playwright and novelist Yasmina Reza stages a band of 18characters at war with their lives, with only humor to sustain them.                                     

Happy are the loved ones and the lovers and those who can do without love. Happy are the happy.
   --- Jorge Luis Borges

Schnitzler’s "La Ronde" gives these 20 short chapters their shape while Borges’ poem gives them their content. As we move from story to story, thrilled to reconnect with an old acquaintance from an earlier scene, we can’t help but admit that we are very much at home in this human comedy that understands all too well the passing thoughts, desires, actions, fears and mistakes that we have and make day after day, but that we would be incapable of rendering with such acuity and compassion.

Happy Are the Happy
written by Yasmina Reza, translated by John Cullen

  • Publication Date: January 27, 2015
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Other Press
  • ISBN-10: 1590516923
  • ISBN-13: 9781590516928