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Jean Genet (/ ʒ ə ˈ n eɪ /; French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; () 19 December 1910 – () 15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright.
Waiting for Godot, a herald for the Theatre of the Absurd. Festival d'Avignon, dir. Otomar Krejča, 1978.. The theatre of the absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.
Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value. [1]
A copiously illustrated monograph in English, Surrealism and the Absurd: Jean Pierre Serrier, was published in 1977. [20] Author Thomas M. Bayer wrote: Serrier's world is one where—to use Friedrich Nietzche 's term—the "human herd animal" is being confronted with the overwhelming task of coping with the world, his solitude, and at times ...
Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959.The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow.
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (/ æ ˈ n uː i /; French: [ʒɑ̃ anuj]; [a] 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone , an adaptation of Sophocles ' classical drama ...
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No Exit (French: Huis clos, pronounced [ɥi klo]) is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The play was first performed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944. [1] The play centers around a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for eternity.