Present Past, Past Present - A Personal Memoir

About the author

Eugene Ionesco (1910–1994), a Romanian-born Frenchman, was central to the Theater of the Absurd, a dramatic movement that abandons logical plot development, meaningful dialogue, and intelligible characters, and instead embraces anarchic comedy to convey the meaninglessness of modern man's existence in a universe ruled by chance. Ionesco's many works include: plays like The Bald Soprano, The Chairs, The Killer, Exit the King, and more than two dozen others; theater criticism (collected in Notes and Counter Notes); and this memoir, which critics have compared in spirit and vision to Pascal's Pensées, Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and Kafka's diaries.

Product details

• Authors: Eugene Ionesco
• Assisted by: Helen R. Lane (Translation)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1998
• EAN: 9780306808357
• ISBN: 978-0-306-80835-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Other performing arts, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000