![]() ![]() ![]() The playwright, Boris Vian, attacked initially for his anti-militarist writings, swore that all he wanted to do was ".make people laugh about something that was not funny-war." His play is "an anarchist vaudeville," an unknowing precursor of the absurdist theatre practiced by Ionesco, Beckett, Genet, Pinter, Albee, and Dürrenmatt, in which weird, disengaged people run on and off the stage, fleeing from nowhere to nowhere, basically interchangeable in their comparative anonymity and apparent lunacy. A knacker is a person who buys worn-out horses and slaughters them for dog food, which might help make clear that The Knacker's ABC is about the futility of war, the utility of family, and the indubitability of people in general.
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