Arthur Adamov

(1908 - 1970)

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

Plays:

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

Collections:

Two Plays 1962
Théâtre - (3 vols) 1953-1966

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