Мартин Эсслин - Театр абсурда
'Ni un dieu ni un dimon’ (on Artaud), Paris: Cahiers de la Compagnie M. Renaud-J.-L Barrault, nos. 22-3, May 1958 ‘Reality in depth’, London: Encore, May-June 1958 ‘The playwright’s role’, London: Observer, 29 June 1958 (The entire controversy with Kenneth Tynan is reproduced as ‘Controverse londonienne' in Cahiers des Saisons, no. 15, Winter 1959)
‘La tragidie du langage’, Paris: Spectacles, no. 2, July 1958 (trans. by Jack Unclank, ‘The tragedy of language*, Tulane Drama Review, Spring i960)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘Preface' to Les Possidis, adapted from the novel by Dostoevsky by Akakia Viala and Nicolas Bataille, Paris: Emile-Paul,
1959
‘Le cceur nest pas sur la main’ (reply to Kenneth Tynan not published by the Observer), Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. 15, Winter 1959 ‘Naissance de La Cantatrice’, Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. 15, Winter 1959
‘La demystification par Г humour noir’, Paris: Avant-Scene, 15 February
1959
‘Eugbie Ionesco ouvre le feu’ (with parallel English translation), Paris: World Theatre, voL VIII, no. 3, Autumn 1959 Interview with Claude Sarraute, Paris: Le Monde, 17 January i960 Interview with himself, Paris: France-Ohservateur, 21 January i960;
reprinted Cahiers du College de Pataphysique, Dossiers 10–11, i960 Interview, Paris: L’Express, 28 January i960 ‘Pages de journal’, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Franfaise, February i960 'Printemps 1939. Les dSris du souvenir. Pages de journal’, Cahiers de la Compagnie M. Renaud — J.-L. Barrault, no. 29, February i960 ‘Propos sur mem thidtre et sur les propos des autres’, Brussels: L’ VII, no. 3. i960
‘Le Rhinocos i New York’, Paris: Arts, February 1961 ‘Some recollections of Brancusi’, trans. by John Russell, London Magazine, April 1961 Notes et Contre-notes (collected critical writings), Paris: Gallimard, 1962 (trans. by Donald Watson, Notes and Counter-Notes, London: Calder, 1965)
Journal en miettes, Paris: Mercure de France, 1967 Present passi, Passi prisent, Paris: Mercure de France, 1968 Dicouvertes, Geneva: Skira, 1969 Antidotes, Paris: Gallimard, 1977
ON IONESCO
Das Abenteuer Ionesco. Beitrage zum Theater von Heute (with contributions by Ionesco, A. Schulze Vellinghausen and Rudolf Sellner), Zurich: Verlag H. R. Stauffacher, 1958 Anouilh, jban, ‘Du chapitre des Chaises’, Paris: Le Figaro, 23 April
1956
BIBLIOGRAPHY
bataille, NicotAS, ‘La bataille de La Cantatrice’, Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. ij, Winter 1969 benmusa, siMONiB, Eugene Ionesco, Paris: Seghers, 1956 (in the series ‘Theatre de Tous les Temps) bentlby, eric, ‘llonesco, playwright of the fifties’, New York: Columbia Daily Spectator, 11 March 1958 BONNEfOY, claude, Entretiens avec Eugene Ionesco, Paris: Belfond,
1966
bosquet, alain, ‘Le thidtre d’Eugbte Ionesco, ou les 36 recettes du comique’, Paris: Combat, 17 February 1955 coe, richard, Iomesco, Edinburgh and London: Oliver Boyd, 1961 (no. 5 in the series ‘Writers Critics’) doubro vsky, sebge, ‘Ionesco and the comedy of the absurd’, Yale French Studies, no. 23, Summer 1959; also Paris: Nouvelle Revue Franfaise, February i960, under the title ‘Le rire d’Eugbu Ionesco’ duvignaud, jean, ‘La dirision', Paris: Cahiers de la Compagnie M.
Renaud — J.-L. Barrault, no. 29, February i960 francueil, berniard, ‘Digression automobile Dilectus quemad- modum jilius unictomiunt (review of Rhinocbos), Cahiers du College de Pataphysique, Dossiers 10–11,1960 laubrbaux, r., ‘Situation de Ionesco’, Paris: Thidtre d’Aujourd’hui, January-February 1959 laubreaux, r. (ed.), Les Critiques de notre temps et Ionesco, Paris: Gamier, 1973
lerminier, geor ges, * CUs pour Ionesco’, Paris: Thidtre d’Aujourd’ hui, September-October 1957 lutbmbi, ‘Contribution ck une itude de La Cantatrice Chauve’, Cahiers du College de Pataphysique, nos. 8–9,1953 marcel, gabriel, 'La crise du thidtre et le cripuscule de Fhumanisme’, Paris: Revue Thfdtrale, no. 39 robbe-grillet, alaiw, ‘Notes’, Paris: Critique, January 1953 roud, richard, ‘The opposite of sameness’, London '.Encore,June- July 1957
saroyan, william, ‘Ionesco’, New York: Theatre Arts, July 1958 saurel, ben6e, ‘ Ionesco ou Les blandices de la culpabiliti’, Paris: Les Temps Modemes, no. CIII, 1954 ‘A school of vigilance’, London: The Times Literary Supplement, 4 March i960
BIBLIOGRAPHY
senart, philippe, Ionesco, Paris: Editions Universitaires, 1964 tobi, saint, Eugbte Ionesco ou La Recherche du paradis perdu, Paris: Gallimard, 1973
TOUCHARD, p. A., ‘La loi du thidtre’, Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no.
15, Winter 1959
- ‘ Un nouveau favuliste’, Paris: Cahiers de laCompagnieM. Renaud-
J.-L. Barrault, no. 29, February i960 towarnicki, f., 'DesChaises vides… Broadway’, Paris: Spectacles, no. 2, July 1958
vernois, paul, La Dynamique thiatrale d’Eugene Ionesco, Paris: Klingsieck, 1972
KOPIT, ARTHUR L.
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling
So Sad. A pseudo-classical tragifarce in a bastard French tradition, New York: Hill Wang, i960; London: Methuen, 1961
MROZEK, SLAWOMIR
The original texts of Mrozek’s plays can be found in the monthly journal Dialog, published in Warsaw, passim 1958-67.
A collection in german
Stiicke, voL I, Berlin: Henssel, 1963, contains: Die Polizei, Aufhoher See, Striptease, Karol, Das Martyrium des Peter Obey, Racket Baby, Der Hirsch
Stiicke, vol. П, Berlin: Henssel, 1965, contains: Eine wundersame Nacht, Zabawa, Tango
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Six Plays, trans. by Nicholas Bethell, London: Cape, 1967, contains: The Police, The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey, Out at Sea, Charlie, The Party, Enchanted Night Tango, trans. by Nicholas Bethell, London: Cape, 1968
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PEDROLO, MANUEL DE Cruma, in Premi Joan Santamaria 1957, Barcelona: Editorial Nereida,
1958
Homes i No, Barcelona: Quadems de Teatre A.DЈ., no. 2, i960
PINGET, ROBERT Lettre Morte, Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1959
La Manivelle, Piice radiophonique (with parallel trans. by Samuel Beckett, The Old Tune), Paris: Editions de Minuit, i960 Id ou Ailleurs, suivi de Architruc et de L’Hypothese, Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1961
PINTER, HAROLD
The Birthday Party and Other Plays, London: Methuen, i960, contains: The Room, The Dumb Waiter, The Birthday Party. The Dumb Waiter also in Penguin New English Dramatists 2 and Penguin Plays, Har- mondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961 and 1964 The Caretaker, London: Methuen i960
A Slight Ache and Other Plays, London: Methuen, 1961, contains: A Slight Ache, A Night Out, The Dwarfs, and some revue sketches The Collection and The Lover, London: Methuen, 1963 The Homecoming, London: Methuen, 1965
Tea Party and Other Plays, London: Methuen, 1967, contains the three television plays Tea Party, The Basement, Night School Landscape and Silence, London: Methuen, 1969 Old Times, London: Methuen, 1971 Five Screen Plays, London: Methuen, 1971 No Man’s Land, London: Eyre Methuen, 1975 Poems and Prose, London: Eyre Methuen, 1978 The Proust Screenplay, London: Eyre Methuen, 1978 Betrayal, London: Eyre Methuen, 1978
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PINTEK
dukore, Bernard f., Where Laughter Stops. Pinter’s Tragicomedy, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1976 esslin, martin, Pinter. A Study of his Plays, 3rd expanded edition, London: Eyre Methuen, 1977 ganz, Arthur, (ed.), Pinter. A Collection of Critical Essays, in the series ‘Twentieth-Century Views’, Englewood СШБ, N.J.: Prenticc-Hall, 1972 hinchcliffe, Arnold P., Harold Pinter, New York: Twayne, 1967 imhof, rddiger, Pinter. A Bibliography, 2nd revised edition, London: TQ Publications, 1976 kerr, Walter, Harold Pinter, New York: Columbia University Press, 1967
SIMPSON, NORMAN FREDERICK
PLAYS
A Resounding Tinkle, in The Observer Plays (anthology of prize- winning entries in a playwriting competition), London: Faber Faber, 1958; also in New English Dramatists 2, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, i960, and in Penguin Plays 1, 1964; shorter stage version as performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, 1 December 19J7, in The Hole and Other Plays and Sketches, London: Faber Faber, 1964 One Way Pendulum, A farce in a new dimension, London: Faber Faber, i960
The Hole and Other Plays and Sketches, London: Faber Faber, 1964, contains: The Hole, A Resounding Tinkle (shorter version), The Form, Gladly Otherwise, Oh, One Blast and Have Done The Cresta Run, London: Faber Faber, 1966
OTHBR WRITINGS The Overcoat (short story), London: Man About Town, December i960
БИБЛИОГРАФИЯ
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TARDIEU, JEAN
Thidtre de Chambre I, Gallimard, 1955, contains: Qui Est Li? La Politesse Inutile, Le Sacre de la Nuit, Le Meuhle, La Serrure, Le Guichet, Monsieur Moi, Faust et Yorick, La Sonate et les Trois Messieurs ou Comment Parler Musique, La Sociiti d' Apollon ou Comment Parler des Arts, Oswald et Zenaide ou Les Apartis, Ce Que Parler Veut Dire ou Le Patois des Families, II у Avait Foule au Manoir ou Les Monologues, Eux Seuls le Savent, Un Geste pour un Autre, Conversa- tion-Sinfonietta
Theatre II: Pobnes Ajouer, Paris: Gallimard, i960, contains: L’AJS.C. de Notre Vie, Rhythme a Trois Temps ou Le Temple de Sigeste, Une Voix Sans Personne, Les Temps du Verbe ou Le Pouvoir de la Parole, Les Amants du Mitro, Tonnerre Sans Orage ou Les Dieux Inutiles
Thidtre III: Une Soiree en Province, Paris: Gallimard, 1975, contains: Une Soirie en Province ou le mot et le cri, Cinq Divertissements, Candide, Livrets d’operas de chambre
ON TARDIBU
jacottet, philippe, 'Note A propos de Jean Tardieu’, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Franfaise, July i960
VIAN, BORIS
For a full bibliography of Vian’s numerous writings, sec Cahiers du
College de Pataphysique, Dossier 12, i960
PLAYS
L’Equarrissage pour Tous (also containing extracts from notices of the performance, ‘ Salut i Boris Vian ’ by Cocteau, and a second short play, Le Dernier des Metiers, Saynetes pour Patronages), Paris: Toutain, 1950; L’Equarrissage pour Tous reprinted in Paris Theatre, no. 66,1952
Les Bdtisseurs d’Empire ou Le Schmurz, Cahiers du College de Pataphysique, Dossier 6,1959; Paris: VArche, 19J9 (in the series ‘Collection du R6pertoire du TNP’)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Thidtre, Paris: Pauvert, 1965, contains: Les Bdtisseurs eTEmpire, Le GoAter des Giniraux, L’Equarrissage pour Tous
ON VIAN
Cahiers du Collige de Pataphysique, Dossier 12, i960, contains critical and biographical studies
2. BACKGROUND AND HISTORY OF THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
General Works
barnes, hazel, The Literature of Possibility, Lincoln, Nebraska: University Press, 1959 beigbeder, marc, Le Theatre en France depuis la Liberation, Paris: Bordas, 1959
bergeaud, jean, Je choisis … mon thidtre. Encyclopidie du Thidtre Contemporain, Paris: Odilis, 1956 bergson, henri, Le Rire. Essai sur la Signification du Comique, in CEuvres, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1959 boisdeffre, pierre de, Une Histoire Vivante de la Literature d’Aujourd’hui, Paris: Le Livre Contemporain camus, albert, Le Mythe de Sisyphe, Paris: Gallimard, 1942 cruickshank, john, Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt, London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1959 Dictionnaire des Hommes de ThiStre Francois Contemporains (tome I: Directeurs, Animateurs, Historiens, Critiques), Paris: Librairie Thtrale, 1957
eco, umberto, 'L'CEuvre ouverte ou La poitique de Г inditermination’, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Franfaise, July and August i960 evreinov, nikolai, The Theatre of the Soul, Monodrama, trans. by M. Potapenko and C. St John, London, 191 j fowlie, Wallace, Dionysus in Paris. A Guide to Contemporary French Theatre, New York: Meridian, i960; London: Gollancz,
