Marie-Claude Hubert, professor emeritus of French literature at Aix-Marseille University, returns to the ambivalence of this master of the ridiculous in search of hope. The author of The Bald Singer, of The Lesson, of Rhinocéros knew how to “ undress the man ” in the words of Vladimir Jankélévitch.
Ionesco is betting on an unstructured language, defying all the rules of human logic, to ‘denounce the oppression of words and things’