Hernani vs Le Balcon: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: French drama, Continental european drama, Drama
Hernani
L'auteur de ce drame ecrivait il y a peu de semaines a propos d'un poete mort avant l'age: «...Dans ce moment de melee et de tourmente litteraire, qui faut-il plaindre, ceux qui meurent ou ceux qui combattent? Sans…
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Le Balcon
“On the ceiling, a chandelier, which will remain the same in each scene.”
The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from all walks of life don the garb of their fantasies and act them out: a man from the gas…
The verdict
- Readers rate Le Balcon highest: Le Balcon 3.8 · Hernani 3.4.
- Hernani has the widest readership — 3857 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Hernani | Le Balcon | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.4 (3857) | 3.8 (3542) |
| Hardcover | 2.8 (6) | — |
Reception
| Hernani | Le Balcon | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 3857 | 3542 |
| Editions | 116 | 79 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 1954 | 3882 |
| Reading it now | 64 | — |
| Written reviews | 214 | 155 |
| Wikipedia attention | 799 | 45 |
| Pages | 110 | 114 |