by Eugène Ionesco · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070368273
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«Le Solitaire» is the novel by Eugène Ionesco, published by Folio in paperback (200 pages, in French).
Le Solitaire is the only novel by Eugène Ionesco, playwright of the absurd. In it, a thirty-five-year-old man receives an inheritance and withdraws from the world. From his solitude he observes those who keep fighting, loving and believing, and reflects on the fleetingness of knowledge and wonder at the everyday, until acquiring a mystical dimension close to Pascal.
It is volume 827 of the Folio collection, within the Gallimard catalogue.
For readers of French fiction interested in existentialism and 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.
