by Eugène Ionesco, Gilles Ernst · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070401321
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Exit the King is a play by Eugène Ionesco, published in 1962. The play explores themes such as mortality, acceptance of death, and the fragility of power. King Bérenger I, after 400 years of reign, refuses to accept his imminent death, which is announced to him by Queen Marguerite. Throughout the play, he faces the reality of his human condition and the loss of control over his kingdom and his own existence.
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.
