{"product_id":"present-past-past-present-9780306808357","title":"Present Past Past Present","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eugene Ionesco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.74h x 5.44w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780306808357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugene Ionesco\u003c\/b\u003e (1910-1994), a Romanian-born Frenchman, was central to the Theater of the Absurd, a dramatic movement that abandons logical plot development, meaningful dialogue, and intelligible characters, and instead embraces anarchic comedy to convey the meaninglessness of modern man's existence in a universe ruled by chance. Ionesco's many works include: plays like \u003ci\u003eThe Bald Soprano, The Chairs, The Killer, Exit the King, \u003c\/i\u003e and more than two dozen others; theater criticism (collected in \u003ci\u003eNotes and Counter Notes\u003c\/i\u003e); and this memoir, which critics have compared in spirit and vision to Pascal's \u003ci\u003ePensées, \u003c\/i\u003e Milan Kundera's \u003ci\u003eBook of Laughter and Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e, and Kafka's diaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43125468004467,"sku":"9.78031E+12","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_2876eb1e-af50-405f-9bd0-192d21339ef0.jpg?v=1749647696","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/present-past-past-present-9780306808357","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}