Rhinoceros

Literature & Fiction

Ionesco, Eugène

Dramas & Plays

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School

Trans by Jan dawson. NY 1971 Holt Rinehart. 187p. Fine in VG DJ dj spine a bit browned.

Conversations with Eugène Ionesco

Bonnefoy, Claude

Dawson, Jan (translator)

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition, a staple of every theatre classroom and 20th century drama. A small town is besieged by one roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order. As more citizens are transformed into rhinoceroses, the trampling becomes overwhelming, and more and more citizens become rhinoceroses. One sane man, Berenger, remains, unable to change his form and identity.

Modern Classics Rhinoceros: The Chairs The Lesson

Penguin Classic

These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. The Chairs depicts the futile struggle of two old people to convey the meaning of life to the rest of humanity, while The Lesson is a chilling, but anarchically funny drama of verbal domination. In these three 'antiplays' dream, nonsense and fantasy combine to create an unsettling, bizarre view of society.

20th Century Rhinoceros: The Chairs The Lessons

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

A collection of plays, often classified as absurd drama, which aim to portray a world in which humanity, with its despair, fear and loneliness, is alone in a hostile and meaningless world.

Absurd Drama (Twentieth Century Classics)

Penguin Putnam~trade

These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. The Chairs depicts the futile struggle of two old people to convey the meaning of life to the rest of humanity, while The Lesson is a chilling, but anarchically funny drama of verbal domination. In these three 'antiplays' dream, nonsense and fantasy combine to create an unsettling, bizarre view of society.

Modern Classics Rhinoceros Chairs Lesson (Penguin Modern Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Penguin??Books

Hermit

Andre Deutsch

Part diary, part autobiography, part self-analysis and commentary, this revealing memoir by the playwright of the Absurd is an expression of the writer's search for the wellsprings and justifications of his existence. Diary jottings mingle with searing memories of his authoritarian father, metaphysical musings with thoughts on anti-Semitism, his wartime experiences, Soviet death camps, and the sham of bourgeois "revolutionaries". There is also the occasional light-hearted fantasy, played out with children who might be his own; the germ of the idea for "Rhinoceros" and various passages of self-probing.

Present Past Past Present: A Personal Memoir

History

Da Capo Press

Pages clean and unmarked. Shelf wear from time on shelf like you would see on a major chain. Immediate shipping

Man With Bags

Grove Pr

Three plays by the innovative European dramatist examine the nature of evil, literary art, and modern courtship

The Killer, and Other Plays

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