by Eugène Ionesco · Gallimard Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070362363
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«La Cantatrice chauve» is the play by Eugène Ionesco published by Gallimard in paperback (150 pages, in French); the volume includes «La Leçon».
Classic of the theater of the absurd: English bourgeois characters engage in trivial, repetitive and contradictory conversations that dismantle the logic of language. With corrosive humor, Ionesco portrays the failure of communication. It is complemented by «La Leçon», a duel between teacher and pupil that turns a lesson into a spiral of absurdity.
The edition belongs to the Folio collection (no. 236) and brings together the two pieces, subtitled «anti-pièce» and «drame comique».
A work commonly found in school curricula, intended for students of French and readers interested in the theater of the absurd.
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.
