Ionesco's The Lesson - a hilarious satire of education

By Aurel Bărbȋnţă

The Lesson is one of Eug ne Ionesco's most widely performed and read plays. It begins as a hilarious satire of teaching, then alludes to learned linguistic theories: the tone then changes: the farce ends in tragedy when the teacher kills his pupil. But this tragedy, too, is parodic: everyone can give it any meaning they like. The murder at the end of the play marks a new desire on the part of the author, that of noting the need to satisfy a need inherent in a transcendental state resulting from a teaching that proves fatal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6206186342
• ISBN13: 9786206186342
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"