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Present Past Past Present: A Personal Memoir
Present Past Past Present A Personal Memoir Author:Eugene Ionesco, Helen R. Lane Part diary, part autobiography, part self-analysis and commentary, this revealing memoir by the playwright of the Absurd is an expression of the writer's search for the wellsprings and justifications of his existence. Diary jottings mingle with searing memories of his authoritarian father, metaphysical musings with thoughts on anti-Semitism, his... more » wartime experiences, Soviet death camps, and the sham of bourgeois "revolutionaries". There is also the occasional light-hearted fantasy, played out with children who might be his own; the germ of the idea for "Rhinoceros" and various passages of self-probing.« less
ISBN-13: 9780306808036 ISBN-10: 030680803X Pages:196 Edition:1st DaCapo Press Ed Rating: