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Translated from French by David Kakhaber

 

The Hermit by Eugene Ionesco – the reformer of the 20^th century theatre, one of the founders and leaders of the Theatre of Absurd (together with Samuel Beckett and Arthur Adamov) – is his only attempt to create a vast canvas of an absurd novel in which he could continue his philosophical research of reality.

 

The author tries to answer the questions which are the subject of eternal concern for humanity: How do humans and masses coexist? How are the aggression and massive psychosis born? Is there a mechanism for resistance? Is a person capable of avoiding universal catastrophes? Is it possible to overcome the existential sorrow that worries every intelligent person?

 

Throughout his life Ionesco attempted to understand the reasons behind the absurdity of being and its essence; the initial reality of the world: love and surprise, dream and death, as well as solitude. All of these make yet another plot, where the author’s original reasoning takes absurdity to such limits beyond which spreads a new reality, the one that uncovers even the most mysterious and painful depths of life and consciousness.