The human condition as seen through Ionesco's The Chairs

Résumé

Eugène Ionesco is a writer of the "Theatre of the Absurd," a term applied to a group of writers of the 1950's and 60's who share some characteristics in their work, and who are worried with more or less the same problems. Ionesco's The Chairs, which was written in 1951, well illustrates the main concerns of this group of writers the human condition and the reality of man's position in the universe.