EUGENE IONESCO’S LESSON- A CRITICAL APPROACH TO TOTALITARIANISM IN THE XXTH CENTURY
EUGENE IONESCO’S LESSON- A CRITICAL APPROACH TO TOTALITARIANISM IN THE XXTH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to offer a panoramic view of a critical approach to totalitarianism in the past century. I am interested in observing how the French-Romanian writer manages to vituperate Fascism and Communism in a century where the Second World War appeared to destroy the lives of ordinary people. Also, I am interested in discussing how people can be foolish because authoritarian dirigents want to impose their point of view in a world where peace and fraternity are dominant. I will consider using the technique of close reading Eugene Ionesco’s masterpiece Lesson and heteroclite books to reflect in which way it is sought to express the idea of the necessity of democracy in a disparate universe. The creative use of language will be regarded as a means to make visible the new paradigm of fraternity can be understood by the readers in contemporaneity.

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