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Title	:	The Hermit
Author	:	Eugène Ionesco
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 169 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1991 by Riverrun Pr (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. Romanian Literature

The Hermit

Eugène Ionesco

Paperback | Pages: 169 pages

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In his only novel, the celebrated dramatist has chosen as his main character a man who is both utterly banal yet strangely touched with grace, a lowly clerk who is none-the-less prey to luminous visions. At 35 he quits the "rat-race" thanks to an unexpected inheritance and devotes himself to his secret passion: observing and meditating on the human condition. "It may well be" wrote the French critic François Nourissier in Le Point, "that in a few years we will come to realize that The Hermit is one of the essential works of our time, probing and detailing the illness of our century.

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ISBN:	0714539899 (ISBN13: 9780714539898)

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"What was it that I lacked? I wanted to know everything. That's what was missing: the fact that I didn't know. The fact that I didn't know everything. I was ignorant, but not enough for me to realize that I was. What about the scholars and wise men: do they know something? And if they do, is it enough for them? What else is there? Maybe the trees know more. Animals know a lot. I hadn't tried very hard, because I felt that it was impossible to know what I wanted to know. When I came to that

This was a fantastic book. Like his plays, Ionesco's only novel is bleak and alienating, yet often funny as hell. A bit like Camus with a sense of humor.

La storia di un uomo che dopo aver ereditato da una zio d'America decide di licenziarsi dal lavoro. Ê uno come tanti: scettico, disilluso, facile a stancarsi e stanco, uno che vive senza scopi, che lavora il meno possibile. Un mediocre che pur non sentendosi a proprio agio nella vita non fa nulla per cambiarla, la subisce. Uno che vive cercando di mettere la sordina ai pochi desideri che gli rimangono, che si limita a guardare la vita che passa. Uno che alla realtà degli altri preferisce il suo

Il sesso femminile mi è sempre sembrato una specie di ferita nel basso ventre tra le cosce. Come un baratro, ma più che altro una ferita aperta, enorme, inguaribile, profonda. Mi ha sempre fatto paura e pietà a un tempo. Sì, era un baratro.""L'amore era come un ponte gettato nell'abisso, una forma di disperazione, un modo di morire accettando la morte.

A meditation on the fate of a young-ish man who comes into an inheritance that enables him to live a leisurely life in Paris. Even though he constantly intends to look up friends and stay involved after he quits his miserable job, he never acts on his intentions and instead drifts into a not unpleasant life of dining at the same restaurant every day, drinking copious quantities of brandy and wine, and sleeping his life away mostly. Some things do happen to him; he does get involved with a woman.

Reminded me a lot of a creep I used to date.

My only exposure to Ionesco (prior to this novel) was reading and almost performing in "The Bald Soprano" (some stuff came up my senior year in high school, and we never got the production off the ground), and reading an interview with Zero Mostel about performing in "The Rhinocerous". So basically, not enough to have formed a strong expectation, but enough so that I felt aptly prepared to deal with any of his absurdist tendancies as I began to read his one and only novel, "The Hermit".It wasn't