ISBN:

978-9941-458-74-3

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Pages:

292

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14.8x21

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Soft

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Translated from French by Davit Kakhaber

 

In his play Rhinoceros (1959) the author presents the nature of vice in an absurd setting so inherent for his theatre. The reality carries a metaphoric meaning as the author explores totalitarianism, massive hysteria, collective madness and fanaticism.

 

In his play Exit the King (1962) the fear of personal destruction entwines with the obsessive idea of total destruction which emerged as a result of the atomic disaster. The unrealistic, real, surreal, fictional and unconscious are all mixed with each other in the play.

 

The 1972 play Macbeth, a satire on Shakespeare’s play, one recognizes the original plot, but it is remolded to the extent that the rightful heir to the throne seems a worse tyrant than the blood-thirsty Macbeth.