by Eugène Ionesco · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070405787
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«La Cantatrice chauve» is a play of the absurd by Eugène Ionesco, published by Gallimard in paperback (142 pages, in French).
In a bourgeois living room, two English couples, the Smiths and the Martins, hold trivial conversations that gradually drift into illogical dialogues and disconnected sentences. With this nonsense, Ionesco shows the banality of everyday communication and the emptiness of a society that no longer knows how to say anything.
This 2002 edition belongs to the collection «La bibliothèque Gallimard».
It is useful for literature students and for those approaching the theatre 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.
