by Eugène Ionesco · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070388653
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«La Leçon» is the absurdist play by Eugène Ionesco, published by Gallimard in paperback (131 pages, in French).
A professor and his student in a room: what starts as a comic satire of teaching gradually turns strange, becoming a power duel. The arithmetic lesson drifts into philology, the tone shifts from farce to tragedy, and the play retains a parodic ambiguity that allows several readings.
The play was originally published in 1951; this edition from the Folio Théâtre collection includes an introduction and notes by Emmanuel Jacquart.
A widely performed and read piece, commonly studied in French and literature courses; a short work for approaching Ionesco's theatre.
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano, which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd. He wrote a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1970, and was awarded the 1970 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize.
