by Eugène Ionesco · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782038700695
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«Le Roi se meurt» is Eugène Ionesco's absurdist play, published by Editions Larousse in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Set in a crumbling kingdom, the play follows a monarch who, warned of his imminent death, clings to life while his court witnesses his decline. With absurd dialogues and a tone that alternates between the tragic and the comic, Ionesco raises questions about power, old age, and the certainty of the end.
For students of French and readers interested in the theater of the absurd in its original language.
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.
