by Eugène Ionesco · BELIN EDUCATION · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782701155609
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«Le roi se meurt» is an absurdist play by Eugène Ionesco, published by Belin Education in paperback (160 pages, in French).
Bérenger I, king of a dying kingdom, receives the news that he is going to die. Faced with the imminence of the end, the monarch rebels, denies the evidence and clings to life while those around him try to accompany him. The play combines the tragic and the comic with humor and poetry, turning death into a mirror of the human condition.
Edition from the Classico Lycée collection, with complete text and dossier. The original play was published in 1962.
Recommended for secondary and high school students studying the theatre of the absurd in French literature classes.
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.
