by Eugène Ionesco · LOSADA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789500396141
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This book brings together four theatrical works by the renowned playwright Eugène Ionesco: 'The Lesson', 'The Master', 'Victims of Duty' and 'The Young Maiden to Be Married'. These pieces, written around the 1950s, are examples of the theater of the absurd, where Ionesco subverts reality through the play with words, highlighting the difficulty of communication and the meaninglessness of everyday conversations. With surprising twists, the works explore human relationships and anticipate a world where the apparent and virtual acquires greater presence than the real.
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.
