Georges Polti

Georges Polti was a French writer, critic, and dramatist, born in 1867 and died in 1946. He is most closely associated with The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, a work that argued that the number of basic dramatic conflicts is limited and can be classified.

That book gave him a long afterlife far beyond his own era. By studying classical and modern literature, Polti tried to identify recurring patterns in storytelling, and his compact theory has continued to interest readers who want to understand plot, character conflict, and dramatic structure.

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