Fragments of a Journal
by Phoebe Adams
by . Grove, $5.00. Is genius simply a capacity for lifelong youth? In his fifties, Mr. Ionesco is still worrying about the exasperating mysteries of life, death, and personal identity with the astonished resentment of an adolescent. He is well aware of this habit, and in his journal alternately indulges it and analyzes the results. He also records a number of splendidly alarming and original dreams. He makes no attempt to explain how these questions and nightmares are turned into plays, but reveals something of the system by implication.