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The Berenger Plays - The Killer, Rhinoceros, Exit the King, A Stroll in the Air (Paperback)
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The Berenger Plays - The Killer, Rhinoceros, Exit the King, A Stroll in the Air (Paperback)
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This collection brings together the four plays that feature
Ionesco's everyman protagonist Jean Berenger. In `The Killer', he
comes across a "radiant city", an ideal civilization which is
unfortunately being terrorized by a killer, whom he decides to
track down and dissuade from committing any further crimes. In
`Rhinoceros', he is the only person in a provincial town who is
resisting "rhinoceritis", an affliction that turn its victims into
the eponymous horned beasts. In `Exit the King', he is the powerful
King Berenger the First, who refuses to acknowledge that he is
dying. And in `Strolling in the Air', he acquires the capacity of
flight and discovers that the celestial vault is held up by a
gigantic pink pillar. While each play in the Berenger cycle is
unique, they are all prime examples of Ionesco's conception of the
theatre of the absurd, and touch on themes that preoccupied Ionesco
throughout his career, such as mortality, alienation, freedom and
the evils of Fascism. This volume constitutes a perfect
introduction to one of the twentieth century's most original and
influential playwrights.
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