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Search - Le Roi Se Meurt (No Exit) (French)

Le Roi Se Meurt - No Exit - French
Author: Eugene Ionesco

Au lever du rideau, le Garde annonce solennellement la Cour, le roi B?renger Ier entre dans la salle du tr?ne et sort, il est suivi des deux reines, Marguerite et Marie, de Juliette et du M?decin. La situation est pr?occupante : le froid s'est install?, le chauffage refuse de fonctionner, le soleil se rebelle et les murs du palais se l?zardent. ... more »La reine Marie qui pleure devant cette d?gradation se fait tancer par la reine Marguerite pour sa frivolit?. Il est convenu que le roi doit ?tre inform? de cet ?tat et que la fin de son r?gne est proche, mais la reine Marie refuse de croire ? l'irr?versibilit? des choses. La reine Marguerite insiste : le sol est mou, il n'a pas d'arm?e dans le royaume, la population vieillit, le roi est malade. C'est assur? par le M?decin qui rapporte que les astres sont formels, c'est la fin.

B?renger Ier entre dans la salle du tr?ne et se plaint de sa sant?, de l'?tat de l'Univers, du royaume, ce que le M?decin confirme en l'informant de sa mort prochaine. Le roi refuse d'admettre la r?alit?, m?me s'il convient que tout n'est pas pour le mieux, d'ailleurs il n'a pas encore d?cid? de mourir. Toute la cour, ? l'exception de la reine Marie, s'emploie ? lui d?crire sa d?cr?pitude et celle du monde. D?s lors, son comportement va ?tre une suite de revirements face ? l'in?luctable, pour finalement l'admettre. Tout au long de cette pi?ce, le roi contestera ce que le m?decin lui dira alors qu'il devrait l'?couter. Il essayera ? plusieurs reprise de se relever mais il n'y parvient pas. Il ne peut m?me plus donner d'ordre. A la fin de la pi?ce, les ?l?ments du d?cor dispara?tront peu ? peu jusqu'? ce que le roi disparaisse lui-m?me. On peut constater que tout le royaume meurt avec le roi lors de la derni?re r?plique.

Le Roi se meurt (English Exit the King) is an absurdist drama by Eugene Ionesco that premiered in 1962. It is the third in Ionesco's "Berenger Cycle", the first two being The Killer (1958) and Rhinoc?ros (1959), and the final one being A Stroll in the Air (1963). In the other plays of the "Berenger Cycle", Berenger appears as a depressed and insecure everyman who is prone to sentimentality. In Exit the King, he is the solipsistic and belligerent King Berenger the First who was apparently at one point able to command nature and force others to obey his will. Also, the king is, according to his first wife, over four hundred years old. He is informed early in the play that he is dying, and the kingdom is likewise crumbling around him. He has lost the power to control his surroundings and is slowly losing his physical capabilities as well. Through much of the play, he is in denial of his death and refuses to give up power. Berenger's first wife, Marguerite, along with the Doctor, tries to make Berenger face the reality of his impending death. Berenger's second wife, Marie, sympathetically attempts to keep Berenger from the pain of knowing his death is imminent. The king lapses into Berenger's normal sentimentality, and eventually accepts that he is going to die. The characters disappear one by one, leaving the king, now speechless, alone with Marguerite who prepares him for the end. Marguerite and then the king disappear into darkness as the play ends.

ISBN: 199412
Publication Date: 1963
Pages: 158
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Publisher: Gallimard
Book Type: Paperback
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