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Contents

Introduction     1

Chapter 1. Ionescoland     13
Chapter 2. The Wonder-full Enfant Terrible     21
Chapter 3. The Surrealist Prankster     37
Chapter 4. Metaphysical Farce     65
Chapter 5. Matter and Air     89
Chapter 6. Berenger: Birth of an Antihero     123
Chapter 7. Death and Dying     149
Chapter 8. The Political Cartoonist     175
Chapter 9. The Modern Classicist     201
Chapter 10. The Dream Plays      223
Conclusion: Ionesco and His Critics     245
Chronology     263
Stage Productions     273
Notes     281
Bibliography     307
Index     315

Description

The first complete survey in English of Ionesco's contributions to the stage and a new recognition of their political content