The influence of Japanese theater in France not only shaped the different phases of reception of the Japanese entity, but also distinguished itself by a reciprocal mirror effect between France and Japan.
Furthermore, this effect helped develop the view on culture and art in general and thus contributed to a cosmopolitan reading of theater.
The authors in this study - Paul Claudel, Jean Genet and Gabriel Cousin - reproduced the cultural, scenic and ritual signifiers of Japanese theater one-to-one.
Additionally, they adapted them through a new coding process that was shaped by their aesthetic and sociocultural ideas.
V&r Unipress Le theatre nippon dans le theatre francais du xxe siecle: d'un regard kaleidoscopique a une reception productive, hardcover/marina-rafaela buch
