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?Si hago estas confidencias es porque sé que no me pertenecen. [...] Este diario y esta búsqueda (son una) exploración, en el bosque espinoso tan difícil de penetrar, en busca de mí mismo. [...] Tengo la impresión de que no he llegado a conocer más que lo que ya conocía. Por otra parte, cabe preguntarse si hay algo que conocer, o alguien, si hay un alma oculta que se revelaría. [...]Escribir diarios íntimos es, según parece, sucumbir a una tentación individualista condenable. [...]A mi edad, es ya muy tarde para esperar respuesta. Qué he venido a hacer aquí? No comprendo nada.?Se presentan aquí, por primera vez en un solo volumen, los Diarios de Eugène Ionesco (1909 [1912]-1994), en traducción revisada de Marcelo Arroita-Jauregui. Diario en migajas (1967) y Presente pasado, pasado presente (1968) aglutinan, en un principio, sus más íntimos y añorados recuerdos de su infancia, edad de oro, truncada a la edad de trece años por un suceso que se nos revelará, en escorzo, a lo lar

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These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. The Chairs depicts the futile struggle of two old people to convey the meaning of life to the rest of humanity, while The Lesson is a chilling, but anarchically funny drama of verbal domination. In these three 'antiplays' dream, nonsense and fantasy combine to create an unsettling, bizarre view of society.

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"This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco’s everyman protagonist Jean Bérenger. In ‘The Killer’, he comes across a “radiant city”, an ideal civilization which is being terrorized by a killer, whom he tries to help apprehend. In ‘Rhinoceros’, he is the only person in a provincial town who is not affected by a condition that turns its victims into the eponymous horned beast. In ‘Exit the King’, he is the powerful King Bérenger the First, who refuses to accept that he is dying. And in ‘A Stroll in the Air’ he acquires the capacity of flight and sees another world lying beyond the clouds. While each play in the Bérenger cycle is unique, they are all prime examples of Ionesco’s conception of the theatre of the absurd, and touch on themes that preoccupied the author throughout his career, such as mortality, alienation, freedom and the evils of Fascism. This volume constitutes a perfect introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most original and influential playwrights."

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