(MISSING) FOWLIE, Wallace - Dionysus in Paris:[A Guide to Contemporary French Theater] -(Paperback)

(THIS BOOK IS MISSING, PLEASE DO NOT ORDER YET) - Book in a good condition but there is a stain on bottom front corner of cover - Google image used.  >>>  . The problem Mr. Fowlie faces in this book is one that anyone who essays to write an intelligent survey must answer: how to unify all of the material into an intelligible whole of some kind. The task is even more formidable in this case as the reader soon realizes when he glances at the table of contents and becomes aware of the startling variety that modem French drama presents: the mercurial surrealist Cocteau and the stolid conservative Montherlant; the religious poet Claudel and the atheistic existentialist Sartre; the psychological dramatist Anouilh and the anti-logic innovator Ionesco. This attempt to give an ordered picture of the French theater today (the author brings his readers up to 1960) is not always 100% successful. The result, however, is not without merit.