Overview
In Amédée, the title character and his wife have a problemnot so much the corpse in their bedroom as the fact that it’s been there for fifteen years and is now growing, slowly but surely crowding them out of their apartment.
In The New Tenant a similar crowding is caused by an excess of furnitureas Harold Hobson said in the London Times, there is not dramatist . . . who can make furniture speak as eloquently as Ionesco, and here he makes it the perfect, the terrifying symbol of the deranged mind.”
In Victims of Duty, Ionesco parodies the conformity of modern life by plunging his characters into an obscure search for Mallot with a t.” In these as in all his plays, Ionesco poses and solves his tragicomic dilemmas with the brilliant blend of gravity and hilarity that is the hallmark of the absurdist theater.
This book title, Amedee, The New Tenant, Victims of Duty (Three Plays), ISBN: 9780802131010, by Eugene Ionesco, Donald Watson, published by Grove Atlantic (January 21, 1994) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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