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Arthur Adamov

(1908 - 1970)

French dramatist, born in Kislovodsk, Russian Caucasus. August 23, 1908. Died Paris, March 16, 1970

Plays:

1. La Parodie (The Parody) 1947 pub. 1950
2. L'Invasion (The Invasion) 1949 pub. 1950
3. La Grande et la Petite Manoeuvre (The Great and the Small Manoeuvres) 1951
4. Le Professeur Taranne (Professor Taranne) 1951 pub. 1953
5. Les Retrouvailles (The Recoveries) 1952 pub. 1955
6. Le Sens de la Marche (The Direction of the March) 1955
7. Tous Contre Tous (All Against All) 1953
8. Comme nous avons été (As We Were) 1953
9. Le ping-pong (Ping-Pong) 1955
10. Le pélican (The Pelican) 1956
11. Paolo Paoli (1957)
12. Les âmes mortes (Dead Souls) 1958
13. Intimité (Intimacy) 1958
14. La complainte du ridicule (The Lament of the Ridiculous) 1958
15. Je ne suis pas Français (I Am Not French) 1958
16. Les petits bourgeois (The Petty Bourgeois) 1959
17. Le printemps 71 (Spring 71) 1960
18. La politique des restes (The Scavengeers) 1962
19. Sainte Europe (1966)
20. Off Limits (1968)
21. M. le Modéré (Mister Moderate)

Criticism:

• Martin Esslin - "Arthur Adamov: The Curable and the Incurable," in The Theatre of the Absurd
• G.E. Wellwarth - The Theatre of Protest and Paradox
• M. Regnaut - Sur Adamov, Artaud, Brecht, Genet, Gorki, Racine, Weiss
• D. Bradby - Adamov