Quote of the day
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system
Lionel Abel

Born: November 19, 1910
Died: April 19, 2001 (aged 90)
Bio: Lionel Abel was an eminent Jewish American playwright, essayist and theater critic. He was also a translator, and was an authorized translator of Jean-Paul Sartre, who called Abel the most intelligent man in New York City.
Known for:
- Metatheatre (1963)
- Tragedy and metatheatre
- The intellectual follies (1984)
- Important nonsense (1987)






