Ionesco's Imperatives

In this study, leading scholar Rosette C. Lamont traces Eugene ionesco’s development as a writer and dramatist from his Surrealist beginnings through to his late “dream plays.” Her careful analysis of Ionesco’s entire oeuvre shows how the archetypal and the historical are intermingled in a synthesis that marks lonesco as a major figure in post-World War Il, post-Holocaust literature.Lamont’s rerea...