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Design Category
Book design, 2003
Design firm
Vintage Books (New York, New York)
Collection
(2004) 50 Books/50 Covers of 2003
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The book is about the absurdist genre of playwriting—plays like Waiting for Godot and Rhinoceros and playwrights such as Beckett, Arrabal and Ionesco. Themes include the perversity of existence, the slow passage of time, the reduction of man to his barest elements, being swallowed into the void, the absurdity at the core of human existence. Fun stuff like that.
“The jury loved this cover, hands down. It’s serious, yet absurd.” Cheryl Towler Weese