by Eugène Ionesco · LOSADA EDITORIAL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789500303330
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The Bald Soprano is a play by Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco. It premiered in 1950 and has become one of the most important works of the theater of the absurd. The play presents a series of nonsensical dialogues between two English couples, the Smiths and the Martins, and their maid Mary. Through these dialogues, Ionesco criticizes the lack of communication and the banality of modern life. This edition also includes Jacob or Submission and The Future Is in Eggs.
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano, which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd. He wrote a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1970, and was awarded the 1970 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize.
