by Eugène Ionesco · Belin - Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782701151410
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«La Cantatrice chauve» is the play by Eugène Ionesco, published by Belin - Gallimard in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Subtitled «anti-pièce», «La Cantatrice chauve» shows characters who speak in clichés, assert something and immediately deny it, until language loses all meaning. Ionesco turns banality and lack of communication into comic material; the bald soprano, mentioned twice, never actually appears.
The play premiered in 1950 and has been performed at the Théâtre de la Huchette without interruption since 1957. This Classico Lycée edition includes the complete text, notes and a dossier by Jean-Luc Vincent.
For students of French literature preparing for the Bac and for 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.
