by Eugène Ionesco · Generalitat de Catalunya · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418986642
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«Macbett» is a tragic farce by Eugène Ionesco, published by Generalitat de Catalunya in paperback (163 pages, in Catalan).
Tragic farce from 1972, inspired by Elizabethan tragedy and Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. Ionesco rejects benevolent power and shows how power strips off its mask of goodness and its disguise of justice. He warns of latent totalitarianism: any politician can carry the seed of tyranny.
First edition published on 10 February 2022, with translation and prologue by Ramón Simó.
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.
