The Theatre of the Absurd (Penguin literary criticism) - Softcover

Esslin, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140137289 ISBN 13: 9780140137286

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

Esslin shows how Samuel Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter and others have confronted a world in which there is no communication, where man - cut off from his traditional religious and metaphysical roots - flounders about in a purposeless void, shorn of all certainties.

About this title

Review:

"Exciting and stimulating...a very useful reference work and a standard text book." -"Literary Review"

About the Author:

Martin Esslin was born in Budapest and educated in Austria. He read Philosophy and English at Vienna University and graduated as a producer from the Reinhardt Seminar, the well-known dramatic academy. He left Austria in 1938 and in 1940 began working for the BBC as a producer, scriptwriter, and broadcaster. In 1963 he became Head of Radio Drama at the BBC, a position he held until his retirement in 1977. At his death in 2002 at the age of 83 he was Emeritus Professor of Drama at Stanford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140137289
• ISBN 13: 9780140137286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480