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Am Ed Ee - The New Tenant ; Victims of Duty (Paperback, New Evergreen ed)
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Am Ed Ee - The New Tenant ; Victims of Duty (Paperback, New Evergreen ed)
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The author of such modern classics as The Bald Soprano, Exit the
King, Rhinoceros, and The Chairs, Eugene Ionesco is "one of the
most important and influential figures in the modern theater"
(Library Journal). This crucial collection combines The New Tenant
with Amedee and Victims of Duty--the plays Richard Gilman has
called, along with The Killer, Ionesco's "greatest plays, works of
the same solidity, fulness, and permanence as those of] his
predecessors in the dramatic revolution that began with Ibsen and
is still going on."
In Amedee, the title character and his wife have a problem--not 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
furniture--as 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.
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