by Eugene Ionesco · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070389209
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«Rhinocéros» is the play by Eugène Ionesco, published by Gallimard in the Folio Théâtre collection in paperback, in French.
In a small town, a rhinoceros appears and soon an epidemic of transformations breaks out: the neighbors turn into rhinoceroses one after another. Only Bérenger resists the tide and refuses to capitulate. Ionesco blends the absurd, the comic and the tragic in a satire of fanaticism and totalitarianism that dehumanizes.
Play in three acts and four tableaux, edited by Emmanuel Jacquart, complete text in the original language.
For those interested in the theater of the absurd and in classics of twentieth-century French literature.
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.
