For 10 points, name this Absurdist playwright who wrote about Berenger in Rhinoceros and hailed from Romania.
This author wrote a volume of critical essays, interspersed with journalistic "intermezzos" in which he criticized the conservatism of writers in his home country. The protagonist of one play by this author suddenly exclaims "I adore hashed brown potatoes!" and is introduced to the multiple-nosed Roberta and her younger sister Roberta II. This author of Nu wrote up a long conversation in which every attempt to discern the ideology of the title character is met with a chuckle; that character uses a "picture of a colonel" to lure Dany to her death in a bright subsection of a metropolis known as the Radiant City. This author wrote a cycle of plays about Jack as well as The Killer, which introduces a character who is spared the fate of Dudard and Daisy in his most famous work. For 10 points, name this Absurdist playwright who wrote about Berenger in Rhinoceros and hailed from Romania.
This author wrote a volume of critical essays, interspersed with journalistic "intermezzos" in which he criticized the conservatism of writers in his home country.
Eugene {Ionesco}