Eugéne Ionesco Boeken

A collection of three modern plays by the master of the absurd and member of the French Academy.

These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. The Chairs depicts the futile struggle of two old people to convey the meaning of life to the rest of humanity, while The Lesson is a chilling, but anarchically funny drama of verbal domination. In these three 'antiplays' dream, nonsense and fantasy combine to create an unsettling, bizarre view of society.

In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories. With brilliant eccentricity, Ionesco's 'tragic farce' combines a comic portrait of human folly with a magical experiment in theatrical possibilities.

The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugene Ionesco (1909-94) did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound. As Ionesco has said, "Theater is not literature. . . . It is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means."

A collection of plays, often classified as absurd drama, which aim to portray a world in which humanity, with its despair, fear and loneliness, is alone in a hostile and meaningless world.

Josefínka si s tatínkem vymýšlejí praštěné příběhy, v nichž se dějí neuvěřitelné věci, slova dostávají nové významy a všechny postavy mohou mít stejné jméno. Pohádky jsou sice určené nejmenším dětem, stejně tak si je ale užijí i začínající čtenáři. Pobaví nicméně i rodiče, popisované scény jsou jak vystřižené z každodenního života. A je to možná tak trochu i návod na přístup k výchově - místo marného vztekání a rozčilování se můžeme raději zasmát. Ionesco přináší dětem svůj něžně ustaraný, ale hlavně zábavný svět v bláznivých a krásně absurdních příbězích a v doprovodu ilustrací, kterých se nemůžete nabažit!