by Eugène Ionesco · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429731101
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«Teatre» is a collection of three absurdist plays by Eugène Ionesco, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (304 pages, in Catalan).
The three plays that give the volume its subtitle —La lliçó (The Lesson), Les cadires (The Chairs) and Rinoceront (Rhinoceros)— are works of the theater of the absurd in which Ionesco dismantles language and makes the everyday unsettling: a class turned into an oppressive ritual, a ceremony before empty chairs and a city succumbing to a metamorphosis.
Volume 46 of the MOLU s.XX collection — Les Millors Obres de la Literatura Universal Segle XX; translation by Joan Tarrida Planes. Published in 1990.
For readers interested in the theater of the absurd and in Ionesco's work in Catalan.
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.
