Les Ratés

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Les Ratés ("The failures") is a French play in fourteen scenes by Henri-René Lenormand

The play traces the physical and moral disintegration of a playwright and his mistress, a mediocre actress, who, under the pressure of adversity, end their lives in murder and suicide.


Le Temps est un songe (1919; “Time Is a Dream”). His best-known play, Les Ratés (1920; “The Failures”), traces the physical and moral disintegration of a playwright and his mistress, a mediocre actress, who, under the pressure of adversity, end their lives in murder and suicide. Translated as The Failures (or Failures) by Winifred Katzin and published by Knopf, 1923

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henri-Rene-Lenormand