La Cantatrice Chauve: Anti-Piece / La Lecon: Drame Comique (Collection Folio, 236) (Mass Market Paperback)

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• Mass Market Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Gallimard (October 26, 1972)
• Language: French
• ISBN-10: 2070362361
• ISBN-13: 978-2070362363
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars the absurd at its best!, June 2, 2001

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Ionesco promised to deliberately explore the post WW2 world by integrating the ABSURD (post-existentialist stream of thought) into the everyday life. He did it with such an ingenious way of portraying the lives of two bourgeouis couples who suffer the scandalous effects of WW2. By breaking all rules concerning grammar and the written way of expression as a means to justify the absurdity which lives inside of us and expressed orally with our "stream of consciousness". Pure genius on his writng skills, ionesco demonstrates just how far one can go just by simply observing the distortions of human relations when affected by dark historical moments...