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PREFACE TO THE PELICAN EDITION 9

PREFACE 13

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 17

INTRODUCTION：The absurdity of the Absurd 19

1 SAMUEL BECKETT：The search for the self 29

2 ARTHUR ADAMOV：The curable and the incurable 88

3 EUGENE IONESCO：Theatre and anti-theatre 125

4 JEAN GENET：A hall of mirrors 195

5 PARALLELS AND PROSELYTES 229

Jean Tardieu 229

Boris Vian 238

Dino Buzzati 241

Ezio d＇Errico 243

Manuel de Pedrolo 245

Fernando Arrabal 249

Max Frisch 255

Wolfgang Hildescheimer 258

Cünter Grass 260

Robert Pinget 261

Harold Pinter 265

Norman Frederick Simpson 292

Edward Albee 301

Jack Gelber 305

Arthur Kopit 305

The Theatre of the Absurd in Eastern Europe 306

Slawomir Mrozek 308

Tadeusz Rózewicz 311

Vaclav Havel 314

6 THE TRADITION OF THE ABSURD 317

7 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ABSURD 389

8 BEYOND THE ABSURD 420

BIBLIOGRAPHY 425

1 The dramatists of the Absurd 425

2 Background and history of the Theatre of the Absurd 446

INDEX 455