The Theater of Arthur Adamov

First recognized with the likes of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco as a defining figure at the forefront of the theater of the absurd French playwright Adam Adamov had a fairly prolific career writing twenty plays between 1947 and his death in 1970. Now although he has fallen somewhat into obscurity John J. McMann provides a study of Adamov's work which traces the playwright's artistic development and explores his role in defining the avant-garde and political theaters of France.