by Eugène Ionesco · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070545131
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«Le Roi se meurt» is the absurdist play by Eugène Ionesco, published by Gallimard Jeunesse in paperback (168 pages, in French).
King Bérenger I, after four hundred years of reign, receives the news that he is going to die and refuses to accept it as his kingdom crumbles. Eugène Ionesco's play uses humor and absurdity to turn a monarch's agony into a reflection on mortality, old age, and the fragility of power.
«Le Roi se meurt» was originally published in 1962; this 2001 edition belongs to the Folio Junior Théâtre collection.
Recommended for students of French literature and readers of 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.
