Rhinoceros
by Eugène Ionesco · first published 2000
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…authoritarianism firsthand, not picture-book,elementary school level accounts of how evil North Korea is. I recommend Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism, Orwell's Politics and the English Language, and the play Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco as starting examples.
on “A Closer Look at North Korea’s Ullim Tablet” ↗"Short little difficult plays" - Anything by Ionesco: Rhinoceros, The Leader, etc., etc.
on “Short Little Difficult Books” ↗In France, I remember we read several classic allegories on that theme at schools. Rhinoceros by Ionesco (even watched it in the theater as a school trip), also The Plague (Albert Camus). I didn't think much of it when I was a teenager, but I'm looking at them on the light of these recent events.…
on “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)” ↗