by Eugene Ionesco · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070364015
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«Les Chaises» is the tragic farce by Eugène Ionesco, published by Gallimard in paperback, in French.
An elderly couple lives isolated in a house surrounded by water and repeats the same stories to combat boredom. The man has a message to convey to humanity and, to that end, hires an orator and summons the most important people; he reserves a chair for each guest, but the attendees are ghostly presences that no one sees. The play is a key piece of the theatre of the absurd.
This edition also includes «L'Impromptu de l'Alma o el camaleón del pastor» and belongs to the Folio collection, number 401, with 192 pages.
Recommended for students of literature and theatre, as well as for readers interested in contemporary 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.
