L’imaginaire de l’absurde dans Amédée ou Comment s’en débarrasser
L’imaginaire de l’absurde dans Amédée ou Comment s’en débarrasser

Summary/Abstract: Based on a nightmare scenario rooted in the Super-realistic and “cruelty” theatre, Amédée ou Comment s’en débarrasser points out a grotesque farce of the existential failure within the absurd world. Coping with the status of man’s disintegration as the effect of the “blind” mechanism overwhelming and ever effecting him, even at a linguistic level (language disintegration as result of the existential vacuum), Ionesco’s play is representative for the “new drama” which, as Martin Esslin notices, “gives up the absurd human condition theme”, but still “points out its presence.” The play can be equally read as a symbolical parable about guilt, anguish, solitude, and a solution of redemption through assuming the revolt against the absurd.

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