The Bérenger Plays: The Killer, Rhinoceros, Exit the King, Strolling in the Air

By Eugène Ionesco

This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco’s everyman protagonist Jean Bérenger. In ‘The Killer’, he comes across a “radiant city”, an ideal civilization which is being terrorized by a killer, whom he tries to help apprehend. In ‘Rhinoceros’, he is the only person in a provi…