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The Theatre of the Absurd

The Theatre of the Absurd - Penguin Literary Criticism

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Publisher's 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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780140137286
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Pub date:
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 809.204
Language: English
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 317g
Height: 196mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 25mm