The Massacre of lonesco’s Jeux de massacre or Pitfalls in Translation

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Notes

^1. Merril Sheils, “Why Johnny Can’t Write,” Newsweek, December 8, 1975, 58–65.

^2. Henriette Valot, “Les belles infideles,” Babel XVI (1970), 117.

^3. Helen Sebba, “Stuart Gilbert’s Meursault: A Strange Stranger,” Contemporary Literature XIII (1970), 334–340.

^4. Eugène Ionesco, Jeux de massacre (Paris: Gallimard, ed. Le Manteau d’Arlequin, 1970), 88. All subsequent references to this edition are given in the text, preceded by “J.”

^5. Eugène Ionesco, Killing Game (New York: Grove Press Inc., 1974), 91. All subsequent references to the translation are given in the text, preceded by “K.”

^6. Maurice Nadeau, Histoire du surréalisme (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1964), 197.

^7. Lucien Goldmann, Le dieu caché (Paris: Gallimard, 1955).

^8. André Breton, Entretiens (Paris: Gallimard, 1969), 140–141.

^9. Michel Carrouges, Andre Breton and the Basic Concepts of Surrealism,translated by Maura Prendergast (The University of Alabama Press, 1974), 179–219.

^10. Paul Robert, Le Petit Robert (Paris: Société du nouveau Littré, 1973), 1668.

^11. Cl. Pichois et A. M. Rousseau, La Littérature comparée (Paris:Armand Colin, 1967), 48.