{"product_id":"present-past-past-present-paperback","title":"Present Past Past Present - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEugene Ionesco\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 7.74 x 5.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42694855196735,"sku":"9780306808357","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1385e1640bc2126ca50350918c2dd5f4.webp?v=1765002226","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/present-past-past-present-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}