The New Tenant (French: Le Nouveau Locataire) is a play written by Eugène Ionesco in 1955. The central image is common to many Ionesco plays: something accumulates on stage and overwhelms the characters. In this case its furniture. The main characters are a gentleman, a caretaker, and two movers. The caretaker talks as the gentleman, the "new tenant" of the title, directs the two movers who continuously bring in furniture.
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Eugène Ionesco
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| Plays |
- The Bald Soprano (1950)
- Salutations (1950)
- The Lesson (1951)
- The Chairs (1952)
- The Leader
- Victims of Duty (1953)
- Maid to Marry (1953)
- Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It (1954)
- Jack, or The Submission (1955)
- The New Tenant (1955)
- The Picture (1955)
- Improvisation (1956)
- The Future is in Eggs, or It Takes All Sorts to Make a World' (1957)
- The Killer (1958)
- Foursome (1959)
- Rhinoceros (1959)
- Frenzy for Two or More (1962)
- Exit the King (1962)
- A Stroll in the Air (1962)
- Hunger and Thirst (1964)
- Killing Game (1970)
- Macbett (1972)
- Man with Bags (1977)
- Journeys among the Dead (1980)
- The Viscount
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| Essays |
Nu (1934)
- Hugoliade (1935)
- La Tragédie du langage (1958)
- Expérience du théâtre (1958)
- Discours sur l'avant-garde (1959)
- Notes and Counternotes (1962)
- Fragments of a Journal (1966)
- Découvertes (1969)
- Antidotes (1977)
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| Poetry |
- Elegii pentru fiinţe mici (1931)
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| Children's books |
Story Number 1 For Children Under Three Years of Age (1967)
- Story Number 2 For Children Under Three Years of Age (1970)
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| Novels and stories |
La Vase (1956)
- Le Piéton de l'air (1961, A Stroll in the Air)
- The Colonel's Photograph and Other Stories (1962)
- Le Solitaire (The Hermit, 1973)
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| Opera adaptations and libretti |
Le Maître (1962)
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