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430 BOOK REVIEWS saving grace for Professor Quigley is that his conclusions about Pinter's plays are nonetheless right. They are substantiated by communication theories as well as by a number of German studies which, working from very differnt premises, have obtained identical results. Riidiger Imhof University of Wuppertal, Germany EUGENE IONESCO, by Griffith R. Hughes and Ruth Bury. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1974. pp. xi & 127. In October 1974 the Welsh Arts Council presented to Eugene Ionesco in Cardiff their International Writers' Prize, and to salute this occasion Mr. Hughes and Miss Bury of the College of Librarianship in Aberystwyth prepared this bibliography . To compile and publish so full a list in the short time available between the announcement of the award in January and its presentation in October was a splendid achievement. The first part of the work takes the form of a list by date of publication of Ionesco's works arranged under the headings: Plays, Stories, Other Major Works, Articles, etc., followed by a list of Translations. No fewer than 359 items are recorded. Information about the date of first performance of the plays would have been welcome here. The second part, entitled Works about Ionesco, is arranged in alphabetical order of author for each year from 1932 to 1973, without distinction between articles or books. At the conclusion of the entry for each year a separate list of thesis titles (including those unpublished) is given; an Appendix prints the table of contents of Notes et Contre-notes and ofa number of special issues ofjournals. The work concludes with a full index by authors and by the titles of Ionesco's plays and major works. Since every title in the body of the text is numbered serially, reference is easy and rapid. The text is well-printed and almost without error. It would be foolish to expect this list to be complete and exhaustive , and it is not in criticism of the compilers but in cooperation with them that one notes, from E.M. Donnachie's unpublished Ph.D. thesis (Birmingham, England ) 1972, The Early Plays of Eugene Ionesco and their Comic Techniques of Disintegration, the following additional thesis titles: Gornouvel, G., "Macrocosme et microcosme" dans les dernieres oeuvres de Ionesco, Phil. M., Toronto, 1968; Grefford, M., Ionesco, auteur comique, M.A. Thesis, Montreal, 1963; Jones, L. Methode pour une analyse d'une piece de Ionesco: Jacques ou la soumission, M.A. Thesis, Alberta, 1966; Paramkas, D., Le Langage dans Ie theatre d'Eugene Ionesco, D. Univ., Laval, 1966; Demaitre A., The Idea and the Technique of the Absurd in Eugene Ionesco's theatre, Ph.D. Thesis, Maryland, 1965. Futhermore, since this volume was prepared for the printer, Ionesco has published two plays: Ce formidable bordel, Gallimard, 1973, and L'Homme aux valises (suivi de Ceformidable bordel) Gallimard, 1975. To sum up, the 359 Ionesco items are followed by 1310 titles about his work and the result is an extremely useful, accurate and very full check-list which will be of considerable service to all who study Ionesco. R. J. NORTH University of Birmingham ...

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