Description
Author: Eugene Ionesco
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/22/1998
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.44w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9780306808357
ISBN10: 0306808358
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
About the Author
Eugene Ionesco (1910-1994), a Romanian-born Frenchman, was central to the Theater of the Absurd, a dramatic movement that abandons logical plot development, meaningful dialogue, and intelligible characters, and instead embraces anarchic comedy to convey the meaninglessness of modern man's existence in a universe ruled by chance. Ionesco's many works include: plays like The Bald Soprano, The Chairs, The Killer, Exit the King, and more than two dozen others; theater criticism (collected in Notes and Counter Notes); and this memoir, which critics have compared in spirit and vision to Pascal's Pensées, Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and Kafka's diaries.