Arthur Adamov
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Arthur Adamov (23 August 1908 – 15 March 1970) was a
Early life
Adamov (originally Adamian) was born in
Surrealist Movement and edited the surrealist journal Discontinuité.[2]
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Postwar career
He began to write
misdemeanours. This particular play was directly influenced by a dream Adamov had.[citation needed
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Lesser known to the public is his prose work with short stories like Fin Août (in Je... Ils..., 1969). Their themes revolve around topics like masochism, which the author regarded as "immunisation against death". Adamov translated a number of works by German authors (Rilke, Büchner) and Russian classics (Gogol, Chekhov) into French.[citation needed]
The Algerian war radicalised his political views and in the 1960s he became a Communist.[3]
During his later years, he began to drink and use drugs.[4]
Adamov's death in 1970 was due to an overdose of
barbiturates.[5]
Selected works
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- L'Aveu (The Confession, 1946)
- La Parodie (The Parody, 1950)
- L'Invasion (The Invasion, 1950)
- La Grande et la Petite Manoeuvre (The Grand and Small Manoeuvre, 1950)
- Le Sens de la Marche (The Way to Go, 1953)
- Tous contre tous (All against all, 1953)
- Le Professeur Taranne (Professor Taranne, 1953)
- Le Ping-Pong (Ping Pong, 1955)
- Paolo Paoli (1957)
- Le Printemps '71 (Spring '71, 1960)
- La Politique des Restes (The Politics of Rubbish, 1963)
- Ici et Maintenant (Here and Now, 1964)
- Sainte Europe (Holy Europe, 1966)
- M. le Modéré (Mr. Moderate, 1968)
- Off Limits (1969)
- Si l'été revenait (If Summer Came Again, 1970)
References
- ^ "Arthur Adamov: Encyclopædia Britannica". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-307-54801-6.
- ^ "Arthur Adamov". Oberon Books. Archived from the original on 7 July 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ Albee, Edward, The American Dream, Coward, 1961.
- ^ Banarjee, R. B., "The Theatre of the Absurd," in Literary Criterion, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1965, pp. 59-62.
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