by Eugène Ionesco · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070363612
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«Le Roi se meurt» is the play by Eugène Ionesco, published by Folio in paperback (137 pages, in French).
The play centres on King Bérenger I, an absolute monarch who is told of his imminent death. The king resists accepting his end while his kingdom crumbles around him. Ionesco combines the absurd and humour to reflect on mortality and the fragility of human existence.
Play premiered in Paris in 1962. This edition is volume 361 of the Folio collection, published on 23 February 1973.
Classic of the theatre of the absurd and of twentieth-century French literature, for readers interested in theatre and the work of Ionesco.
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.
