by Eugène Ionesco · Gallimard Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070338801
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«Rhinocéros» is the play by dramatist Eugène Ionesco, published by Gallimard Editions in paperback (240 pages, in French).
In a small town, the inhabitants turn into rhinoceroses and the epidemic spreads while social life becomes threatening. Bérenger tries to preserve his humanity in the face of those who accept the metamorphosis. Ionesco combines the absurd and the tragic to portray conformism, fanaticism and totalitarianism.
Play in three acts and four scenes, premiered in 1959. The Folio Plus Classique edition, 20e siècle collection, includes a dossier by Olivier Rocheteau and an image reading by Ferrante Ferranti.
Recommended for lycée classes, it is a didactic edition designed for analyzing the work in the classroom.
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.
