by Eugene Ionesco · Dessain et Tolra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782040160364
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«Rhinocéros» is the play by dramatist Eugène Ionesco, in paperback, with 188 pages and text in French.
The inhabitants of a town turn into rhinoceroses one after another; only Bérenger resists the mutation. Ionesco turns this epidemic into an allegory of mass ideologies: social pressure, stereotyped language and lack of communication push towards conformity and erase the individual. It combines the tragic, the comic and the grotesque.
The play dates from 1959. This edition belongs to the Univers des Lettres Bordas collection and contains extracts.
An edition aimed at secondary school students studying French literature and at those who want to discover the theater of the absurd.
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.
