by Eugene Ionesco · FISCHER Taschenbuch · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783596270347
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«Die Nashörner» is the three-act play by Eugène Ionesco, published by Fischer Taschenbuch in paperback (110 pages, in German).
The action takes place in a small town where the inhabitants turn into rhinoceroses. The play, an example of the theater of the absurd, turns this metamorphosis into a symbol of conformism and the advance of a totalitarian mentality; only one ordinary man seems to escape it.
Originally published in French as «Rhinocéros» in 1959; German translation by Claus Bremer and H. R. Stauffacher. Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe series, no. 7034.
Of interest to readers of theater of the absurd, French literature and twentieth-century classics, as well as to those working with it in school settings.
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano, which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd. He wrote a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1970, and was awarded the 1970 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize.
