Volume 2, Number 11 · July 9, 1964

Ionesco: the Theater of the Banal

By Susan Sontag
Notes and Counter Notes: Writings on the Theatre
by Eugène Ionesco, translated by Donald Watson

Grove, 271 pp., $5.50

It is fitting that a playwright whose best works apotheosize the platitude compiled a book on the theater crammed with platitudes. I quote, at random:



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