Rhinoceros/Chairs Paperback – Deckle Edge, 31 August 2000

It is a great work based on the concept of theatre of absurd. The characters are realistic and relatable. The storyline is hilarious, you will not feel bored or distracted while reading. All the three dramas are extremely thought provoking and engaging.

Thanks for dilivery . Very good condition.

Wonderful collection can't be described without reading or viewing these plays...

Regardless of the polarising critiques of his absurd farce, Ionesco is sharp. During his time, the contemporary hotshots which included the likes of Sartre, Orson Welles and others were not quite impressed by Ionesco’s theatre. Neither was Eugene Ionesco by theirs. Absurd to the point of blatant nihilism, Ionesco presents the empty meaning of human life, the failure of language and communication, the extreme drudgery of rationalism through the nonsensical strutting and fretting upon the stage which signifies nothing. Sometimes humorous, sometimes utterly ridiculous and sometimes political and sometimes existential, the playwright questions the predicament of the human condition, its collective anxiety, unrestrained desires and eventually the agony of living. From a thickheaded crowd trumpeting around in a stampede to the crushing tyranny of rational education to the frantic angst of arriving at a meaning of existence, Ionesco’s stage is neither meant for a brazen propaganda, nor meant to arrive at a definitive sociological assessment but an empty space sealed with an absurd void, “where ignorant armies clash”.