![]() ![]() ![]() Apparently that’s normal, for the household as the maid is trying to warn him to behave and calm himself. The new student arrives for her lesson and things kind of spiral out of control for the professor. It was a quick read and somewhat entertaining.īasically, there is a professor and his maid, who are expecting a new student. The Lesson is a short play by Eugene Ionesco. My goal is to read 52 plays in a year and you can follow my progress right here and maybe even start your own!įind plays by Ionesco right here on Amazon The play is a part of my reading challenge, where I read a play a week. ![]() This is actually a review of the script for a play. Now considered to be one of the foundational texts of the Theatre of the Absurd, this well-loved play has been translated into dozens of languages, and its message is no less relevant today than when it was first performed in the aftermath of the second world war.Book review of The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco ![]() The Lesson is a scathing commentary on totalitarianism, indoctrination, and the power of propaganda to suffocate and enslave. Luckily for him, his loyal maid knows how to get the forty bodies out without arousing suspicion: he simply needs to wear an armband and practice “good politics.” The Professor’s lesson culminates in the Pupil’s brutal murder - the fortieth student that the Professor has killed in his study. All the while, the timid and polite Professor is growing more forceful, domineering and lascivious, as the power of his lectures renders his pupil helpless. The Professor’s maid urges him to remain calm as the lesson progresses from addition and subtraction, to multiplication, and later to Spanish pronunciation. She is trying to earn an educational certificate called the “total doctorate,” and she needs to master both mathematics and philology (the study of the history of languages) in order to do so. In this comic drama, a lively young student arrives at the study of a learned professor. ![]()
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