by Eugène Ionesco · Gallimard Editions · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070368167
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«Rhinocéros» is the play by Eugène Ionesco, published by Gallimard in paperback (246 pages, in French).
The play takes place in a small town where the inhabitants begin to turn into rhinoceroses. Bérenger, the protagonist, resists this metamorphosis while those around him succumb to fanaticism and group pressure. Ionesco presents an allegory of totalitarianism and conformity, using the absurd to denounce dehumanization.
It belongs to the Folio collection (no. 816). The subtitle of the play is «pièce en trois actes et quatre tableaux». Originally published in 1959.
Recommended for French readers and literature students, as well as for fans of the theater of the absurd and twentieth-century classics.
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.
