{"product_id":"present-past-past-present-9780306808357","title":"Present Past Past Present","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-1685730\"\u003eEugene Ionesco\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Da Capo Press\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\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780306808357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0306808358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42659775611117,"sku":"9780306808357","price":21.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d8ec1b82-da3a-4025-92c1-9f6d6c45e9cc.jpg?v=1649343354","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/present-past-past-present-9780306808357","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}