Artaud (Fontana modern masters)

Esslin, Martin

Literature & Fiction

Fontana/Collins

Reviews Artaud's theories and views on the theater in relation to his status as a cult figure, revolutionary force, and psychological case history

Antonin Artaud (Modern Masters)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penguin??Books

<p>Introduces audiences to developments in the contemporary theatre which reflect changing attitudes toward the world</p>

The Theatre of the Absurd: 3rd Edition (Penguin Literary Criticism)

Dramas & Plays

In 1953, Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents--Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others--shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention to psychological realism, while highlighting their characters' inability to understand one another. In 1961, Martin Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his groundbreaking study of these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the human condition. Over four decades after its initial publication, Esslin's landmark book has lost none of its freshness. The questions these dramatists raise about the struggle for meaning in a purposeless world are still as incisive and necessary today as they were when Beckett's tramps first waited beneath a dying tree on a lonely country road for a mysterious benefactor who would never show. Authoritative, engaging, and eminently readable, The Theatre of the Absurd is nothing short of a classic: vital reading for anyone with an interest in the theatre.

The Theatre of the Absurd

<p>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.</p>

Puffin

Bertolt Brecht (Columbia Essays on Modern Writers, number 42)

Columbia Univ. Pr.

A critique of the narcissism, ignorance and anti-communitarianism of the digital elite and their culture. Until now, the pronouncements of the high-tech gurus and society's obsession with them have rarely been questioned. The author of this text seeks to set the record straight, examining such issues as the lack of philanthropy among high-tech companies, the anti-liberal arts bias - which dismisses most art and literature created before the computer revolution - and the culture's misogyny.

Mediations

Abacus Uk

"A brilliantly perceptive study of the most ambiguous and perpetually fascinating of figure of the twentieth century European literature." -- Kenneth Tynan

Brecht: The Man and His Work

Anchor Books

The Theatre of the Absurd.

History

DOUBLEDAY

Brecht; the man and his work (The Norton library, N754)

Norton

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