| Description |
364 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Anchor books, A279
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| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction: the absurdity of the absurd -- Samuel Beckett: the search for the self -- Arthur Adamov: the curable and the incurable -- Eugene Ionesco: theatre and anti-theatre -- Jean Genet: a hall of mirrors -- Parallels and proselytes: Jean Tardieu, Boris Vian, Dino Buzzati, Ezio d'Errico, Manuel de Pedrolo, Fernando Arrabal, Amos Kenan, Max Frisch, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Günter Grass, Robert Pinget, Harold Pinter, Norman Frederick Simpson, Edward Albee -- The tradition of the absurd -- The significance of the absurd -- Notes. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography. |
| Subject |
European drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Theater of the absurd.
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