by Eugène Ionesco · Editions Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070392476
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«Les Chaises» is a play by the dramatist Eugène Ionesco, published by Editions Flammarion in paperback (140 pages, in French).
Two elderly people pile up chairs to receive a crowd of invisible guests and trust that an orator will deliver an essential message to humanity. Eugène Ionesco turns waiting into a tragic farce about lack of communication, solitude, guilt and the absurdity of existence, between clown humour and metaphysical anguish.
Ionesco's third dramatic work, premiered in 1952 and revived in 1956; edition presented, established and annotated by Michel Lioure.
For those who enjoy the theatre of the absurd, twentieth-century French literature and theatrical classics.
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.
