https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco
>Ionesco is often considered a writer of the Theatre of the Absurd, a label originally given to him by Martin Esslin in his book of the same name. Esslin, placed Ionesco alongside contemporaries Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov, calling this informal group "absurd" on the basis of Albert Camus' concept of the absurd.
He's similar to Beckett and everything he's done is "Theatre of the Absurd". His plays are very readable and hilarious in their absurdity.
His best work, in my opinion:
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The Bald Soprano
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Rhinoceros
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The Chairs
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The Lesson
A writer whose work became progressively more unconventional until his last work was outright incomprehensible vs. a writer whose earliest work is just random gibberish but whose later works became progressively more straightforward.
In his 1970 book From Cliche to Archetype, McLuhan extensively analysed and discussed Eugène Ionesco play The Bald Soprano.
A total of 1090 users submitted valid votes and the average number of authors read per user is 45 authors (out of 197 authors). The median number of votes an author received is 195 votes (Alice Munro, voted by 17.9% of users).
The selection is not complete in any way, but what these writers have in common is that they are all highly acclaimed. That’s why it would be interesting to discuss why some of them are read more or less often than others.
| lng | author | # votes | read by % voters |
|---|---|---|---|
| es | Miguel Delibes | 6 | 0,6% |
| ar | Al-Tayyib Salih | 8 | 0,7% |
| pl | Adam Mickiewicz | 10 | 0,9% |
| de | Uwe Johnson | 10 | 0,9% |
| gr | Longus | 12 | 1,1% |
| ru | Ivan Bunin | 13 | 1,2% |
| de | Gottfried Keller | 13 | 1,2% |
| es | Camilo José Cela | 18 | 1,7% |
| hu | Imre Kertész | 18 | 1,7% |
| en | William Maxwell | 18 | 1,7% |
| it | Alessandro Manzoni | 19 | 1,7% |
| es | Gabriela Mistral | 21 | 1,9% |
| sr | Ivo Andrić | 22 | 2,0% |
| is | Halldór Laxness | 24 | 2,2% |
| fr | Alain-Fournier | 26 | 2,4% |
| de | Elias Canetti | 26 | 2,4% |
| ru | Mikhail Sholokhov | 28 | 2,6% |
| cs | Jaroslav Hašek | 28 | 2,6% |
| de | Alfred Döblin | 28 | 2,6% |
| ja | Murasaki Shikibu | 29 | 2,7% |
| it | Giacomo Leopardi | 29 | 2,7% |
| de | Georg Büchner | 29 | 2,7% |
| de | Peter Handke | 29 | 2,7% |
| fr | André Malraux | 30 | 2,8% |
| fr | Jacques Prévert | 32 | 2,9% |
| it | Dino Buzzati | 33 | 3,0% |
| de | Max Frisch | 38 | 3,5% |
| el | Nikos Kazantzakis | 38 | 3,5% |
| en | Samuel Richardson | 42 | 3,9% |
| de | Robert Musil | 43 | 3,9% |
| de | Heinrich von Kleist | 44 | 4% |
| de | Heinrich Heine | 48 | 4,4% |
| sv | August Strindberg | 50 | 4,6% |
| de | Thomas Bernhard | 52 | 4,8% |
| en | Anthony Trollope | 54 | 5,0% |
| bn | Rabindranath Tagore | 55 | 5,0% |
| pl | Olga Tokarczuk | 56 | 5,1% |
| en | John Bunyan | 58 | 5,3% |
| fr | Guillaume Apollinaire | 58 | 5,3% |
| fr | Jean Racine | 59 | 5,4% |
| it | Luigi Pirandello | 59 | 5,4% |
| es | Juan Rulfo | 65 | 6,0% |
| fr | Georges Perec | 66 | 6,1% |
| ru | Maxim Gorky | 67 | 6,1% |
| en | John Dos Passos | 69 | 6,3% |
| pt | Clarice Lispector | 71 | 6,5% |
| en | Iris Murdoch | 71 | 6,5% |
| de | Friedrich Schiller | 72 | 6,6% |
| ru | Boris Pasternak | 74 | 6,8% |
| fr | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 74 | 6,8% |
| la | Lucretius | 75 | 6,9% |
| de | E. T. A. Hoffmann | 76 | 7,0% |
| fr | Francois Rabelais | 77 | 7,1% |
| es | Octavio Paz | 82 | 7,5% |
| es | Carlos Fuentes | 84 | 7,7% |
| fr | André Gide | 84 | 7,7% |
| fr | Eugène Ionesco | 85 | 7,8% |
| fr | Denis Diderot | 86 | 7,9% |
| en | Henry Fielding | 86 | 7,9% |
| p/e/f | Fernando Pessoa | 86 | 7,9% |
| no | Knut Hamsun | 89 | 8,2% |
| en | V. S. Naipaul | 91 | 8,3% |
| en | E. L. Doctorow | 91 | 8,3% |
| en | Laurence Sterne | 92 | 8,4% |
| la | Tacitus | 92 | 8,4% |
| en | William Makepeace Thackeray | 97 | 8,9% |
| es | Mario Vargas Llosa | 100 | 9,2% |
| de | Günter Grass | 100 | 9,2% |
| fr | Stendhal | 103 | 9,4% |
| en | Doris Lessing | 103 | 9,4% |
| it | Giovanni Boccaccio | 105 | 9,6% |
| en | Walter Scott | 114 | 10,5% |
| it | Primo Levi | 116 | 10,6% |
| de | Stefan Zweig | 117 | 10,7% |
| la | Horace | 118 | 10,8% |
| en | Richard Wright | 125 | 11,5% |
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... keep reading on reddit ➡I'm essentially a virgin when it comes to reading plays. I've read Waiting for Godot for school a while ago, but recently I've really wanted to read more. I enjoy books by Celine, Bulgakov, and Houellebecq, and reading a play with similar themes of hopelessness, while being funny, would be ideal. However, I am open to any and all suggestions, but I'd much rather read plays with darker themes/topics at hand, and I'm not a huge fan of stuff like Oedipus Rex, which I also read for school, lol. Uh yeh, idk what else to add to this post, but thank you for your recommendations.
I think I saw this play around 2011-2012, but I don't know when it was written. I saw it at our local Goethe-Institut (German school) so I assume the playwright was German.
I remember very little of the plot, but this is what I remember about the production:
- The set design was minimalistic. I don't remember exactly, but there might have been just a chair or a few chairs on stage.
- There were only four characters, two male and two female. They might have been two couples.
- The actors had paper signs with the name of their characters taped to their chest. In the middle of the play they would swap the signs around so that the actor who was playing a certain character would change. I think at one point there might have been one actor playing two characters at the same time, but I'm not sure.
The whole play had an absurdist feel to it. It reminds me of The Bald Soprano and The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco, but I'm pretty sure it's neither of those. The two couples also feel similar to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but it's definitely not that one either. Because the swapping characters around is so memorable, I'm assuming that it wasn't something specific to the production I saw and it was written as part of the play.
The School Nurse files is weird. Like really off the wall weird, one of the strangest things I’ve seen in a while. I saw a lot of people online saying they didn’t like it because it didn’t make sense or they couldn’t understand it. Going into it I expected to see a drama that followed the regular format. There’s not necessarily a set format but there is a certain style to Kdramas and this one doesn’t fit into that box. It could be classified as absurdism, surrealism, or magic realism.
Absurdism is defined as “intentionally ridiculous or bizarre behavior or character.” Examples of this can be found in Plays like Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. As well as books, movies and shows like Catch 22, Bojack Horseman, The Big Lebowski, and Rick and Morty. Absurdism usually focuses on the human tendency to seek meaning and value in a purposeless or chaotic and irrational universe.
Surrealism is described as “the principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations.” Examples of this can be found in the play Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco (in which a small town of people slowly start turning into rhinoceros’s) as well as movies and shows like A ClockWork Orange, Twin Peaks, Beetlejuice, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It can also be seen in the works of Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo.
Magic realism is explained as “a genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy.” Examples of this can be found in the play References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot” by José Rivera as well as movies and shows like Donnie Darko, Scott Pilgrim vs. The world, Birdman, and Jane The Virgin. Matthew Strecher explains it by saying "what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe." Magic realism is usually a separate genre from fantasy because in magic realism there’s realistic detail with magic elements included to make a point about reality. While fantasy is sort of separated from reality entirely.
At first I was unable to definitively classify The School Nurse Files under one of the 3 specific genres. After watching the first episode I could see why people were confused. It’s experimental and avant-garde in a way that usually isn’t seen in Kdramas. However after finishing the show I have come to the conclusion that it is surrealism. It’s not absurdism because none of t
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
And now I’m cannelloni
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
