De la avangardă la teatrul absurdului
From the avant-garde to the theatre of the absurd

Summary/Abstract: Placing the theatre of the 1950s in a wider social and historical context is still a challenge for theatre researchers, mainly because its most significant figures did not follow any common literary program. The “theatre of the absurd”, as Martin Esslin named it in his 1961 seminal study, represents a catalyst of various influences. This essay aims to highlight the paradoxical originality of this genre by pointing out some of the major influences it absorbed from the avant-garde movements that preceded it.

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