Presentation Copy from The Theatre of the Absurd
IONESCO, Eugene La quete intermittente. Paris: Editions Gallimard.1987.
8vo. White card wrappers with red lettering and wraparound red banner entitled, 'Un Clin D'Oeil Aux Hommes Un Regard Vers Dieu'; pp. [x], 169, [9]; minimal discolouration to top and bottom edge and minor stain to front cover and to spine; otherwise near fine.
First French edition. Presentation copy from the author with an inscription to the title-page addressed to a Swedish novelist snd critic: "Pour Ingmar Bjorksten- Eugene Ionesco. 3 Mai 1988- Stockholm
Eugene Ionesco wrote his first play, The Bald Soprano or La Cantatrice Chauve in 1950, and subsequently ushered in theatrical revolution through bold use of surrealistic techniques on an unsuspecting audience. It is considered a crucial milestone in the movement The Theatre of the Absurd. In 1970, Ionesco was inaugurated in the Académie Française, securing a position amoungst some of the most revered dramatists of the 20th century.
The blurb of La quete intermittente reveals that the story of the novel concerns an artist's existentialism; "These new diary pages follow the Journal en miettes published twenty years ago. Today, the author feels old, often ill. The approach of death terrifies him. He is torn by doubt: why this rage for writing? Why this universal glory? Why this world?".
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