Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Ionesco, Eugene

 
9780141184296: Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141184299 ISBN 13: 9780141184296
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. The Chairs depicts the futile struggle of two old people to convey the meaning of life to the rest of humanity, while The Lesson is a chilling, but anarchically funny drama of verbal domination. In these three 'antiplays' dream, nonsense and fantasy combine to create an unsettling, bizarre view of society.

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Eugène Ionesco's first one-act “antiplay,” The Bald Soprano, inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd. He followed it with other one-act plays in which illogical events create an atmosphere both comic and grotesque, including The Lesson. His most popular full-length play was Rhinoceros. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1970.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141184299
ISBN 13 
9780141184296
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Anzahl der Seiten
224
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