Resentment has a history. Paintings such as Gericault's Le Radeau de La Meduse, nineteenth-century women's manifestos and WWI war photographs provide but a few examples to retrace the changing physiognomy of this emotion from the second half of the eighteenth century up to our contemporary society.
Present past, past present : a personal memoir
β Scribed by EugΓ¨ne Ionesco; Helen R. Lane
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 202
- Edition
- 1st DaCapo Press ed.
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Part diary, part autobiography, part self-analysis, this memoir by the playwright of the Theatre of the Absurd mingles jottings with metaphysical musings. Ionesco's memories of his authoritarian father are juxtaposed with wartime experiences, thoughts on anti-Semitism and personal self-probing.
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