Posts tagged foreign
rhinoceros – eugène ionesco
This is what Ionesco himself says about his play (translated):
It’s not even a satire: it’s the fairly objective description of a process of inflammation, of a development of a totalitarianism that’s spreading, that propagates, captures, that’s changing a world. And this world will be totally changed because after all it’s about totalitarianism.
cheese – willem elsschot
A clerk in a dock industry is talked into a new profession: selling food and more particularly: cheese. He becomes the distributor for Belgium and Luxemburg. He always felt little and of no importance, but now he has the chance to prove himself. The only problem is, he has no idea how to be a (good) businessman and after only a few days of being a cheese expert he is forced to make a difficult decision; keep trying or go back to his old self and be happy with it.
