METAMORPHOSIS AND IDENTITY IN RINOCERII, ALICE ÎN ȚARA MINUNILOR AND ALICE ÎN ȚARA DIN OGLINDĂ
METAMORPHOSIS AND IDENTITY IN RINOCERII, ALICE ÎN ȚARA MINUNILOR AND ALICE ÎN ȚARA DIN OGLINDĂ

Summary/Abstract: The present paper focuses on the common characteristics shared by Lewis Carroll’s books and the Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco’s play, starting from the considerations that Carroll can be viewed as a forerunner of the literature of the absurd. Starting from the idea of humanity being challenged by mechanization, functions and ideologies, the two authors create worlds in which their main character witnesses the metamorphosis of others around them, or go themselves through such transformations, and come in contact with beings that have regressed to a lower form of life. All these consequences of the loss of identity also challenge the hero’s identity, leading to its desperate reaffirmation.

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