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The ColoneFs Photograph (collected stories in English), trans. by Jean Stewart and John Russell, London: Faber Faber, 1967 Le Solitaire. Roman, Paris: Mercure de France, 1973

ESSAYS AND OTHER PROSE WRITINGS

‘L’invraisemblable, Гinsolite, mon univers…’, Paris: Arts, 14 August I9J3; also Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. 15, Winter 1959, under the title 'Je n’ai jamais riussi…’

BIBLIOGRAPHY

'Le point du depart', Paris: Cahiers des Quatre Saisons, do. i, August

1955 [this periodical changed its tide to Cahiers des Saisons from no. 2, October 1955] (trans. by L.C. Pronko, New York: Theatre Arts, June 1958; by Donald Watson in Plays, vol. I [London: Calder])

‘ Thiitre et anti-thidtre’, Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. 2, October 1955 (trans. by L. C. Pronko, New York: Theatre Arts, June 1958)

‘Mes piices ne pritendent pas sauver le monde', Paris: L'Express, 15–16 October 1955 LMes critiques et moi’, Paris: Arts, 22 February 1956 ‘Gammes’ (nonsense aphorisms), Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. 7, September 1956

‘There is no avant-garde theatre’, trans. by Richard Howard, New York: Evergreen Review, I, 4,1957 ‘The world of Ionesco’, International Theatre Annual, no. 2, ed. Harold Hobson, London: Calder, 1957; Tulane Drama Review, October 19S8

‘Olympie’ (prose poem), Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. 10, April-May

1957

‘Pour Cocteau', Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. 12, October 1957 ‘The theatre’, talk on Б.В.С. Third Programme, July 1957 [an early version oЈ‘Experience du thi tre — see below]

‘Dans les ames de la ville' (on Kafka), Paris: Cahiers de la Compagnie M. Renaud — J.-L Barrault, no. 20, October 1957 ‘Qu’est-ce que Г avant-garde en 1958?', Paris: Les Lettres Francoises, itf April 1958; also Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. 15, Winter 1959, under the tide ‘Lorsque j’icris — '

‘Experience du thidtre’, Paris: Nouvelle Revue Fran$aise, February 1958 (trans. by L. C. Pronko, ‘Discovering the theatre’, Tulane Drama Review, September 1959)

'Ni un dieu ni un dimon’ (on Artaud), Paris: Cahiers de la Compagnie M. Renaud-J.-L Barrault, nos. 22-3, May 1958 ‘Reality in depth’, London: Encore, May-June 1958 ‘The playwright’s role’, London: Observer, 29 June 1958 (The entire controversy with Kenneth Tynan is reproduced as ‘Controverse londonienne' in Cahiers des Saisons, no. 15, Winter 1959)

‘La tragidie du langage’, Paris: Spectacles, no. 2, July 1958 (trans. by Jack Unclank, ‘The tragedy of language*, Tulane Drama Review, Spring i960)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

‘Preface' to Les Possidis, adapted from the novel by Dostoevsky by Akakia Viala and Nicolas Bataille, Paris: Emile-Paul,

1959

‘Le cceur nest pas sur la main’ (reply to Kenneth Tynan not published by the Observer), Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. 15, Winter 1959 ‘Naissance de La Cantatrice’, Paris: Cahiers des Saisons, no. 15, Winter 1959

‘La demystification par Г humour noir’, Paris: Avant-Scene, 15 February

1959

‘Eugbie Ionesco ouvre le feu’ (with parallel English translation), Paris: World Theatre, voL VIII, no. 3, Autumn 1959 Interview with Claude Sarraute, Paris: Le Monde, 17 January i960 Interview with himself, Paris: France-Ohservateur, 21 January i960;