EUGÈNE IONESCO : LA LEÇON DE LA MORT OU “APPRENDRE À MOURIR”
EUGÈNE IONESCO: THE LESSON OF DEATH OR LEARNING TO DIE

Summary/Abstract: Bérenger is a one episode character in the theatre of Ionesco, an “alter-ego” of the playwright, someone who passes, as a character, through several plays, from the “Rhinoceros” to “A Stroll in the air”, “The King is dying” or “Killer without pay”. Bérenger is a sort of "raisonneur attachant" (attached thinker) to the playwright, the typical Ionescian idiot who is a mixture of devastating lucidity and candor, an incurable idealist who is nonetheless endowed with a sense of tragic. Read as a symbol, the play represents the death of a HUMAN or rather the death of humanity.

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