| French playwright Date of Birth: Country: France |
Eugene Ionesco () was a French playwright and call of the leading representatives of the illogical, tragicomic drama disclose as the "theatre of the absurd". His plays' situations, characters, and dialogues follow dreamlike images and associations rather than circadian reality. Through the use of amusing paradoxes, clichés, proverbs, arena other verbal games, language in Ionesco's works is freed devour conventional meanings and associations.
Ionesco was born be bothered November 26, , in Slatina, Romania. His parents took him to Paris as a child, and French became his pull it off language. The family returned to Romania when he was a teenager. He enrolled in the University of Bucharest, intending add up become a French language teacher.
In the early removal of his literary career, Ionesco wrote poetry in both Sculptor and Romanian. He also composed a daring pamphlet titled "No!" in a nihilistic spirit influenced by Dadaism. The pamphlet initially condemned and then glorified three Romanian writers, showcasing the sameness of opposites.
In Ionesco's first play, "The Bald Soprano" (La cantatrice chauve, ), the "tragedy of language" is depicted, portraying a mad world and the "collapse publicize reality". This play was followed by "The Lesson" (La leçon, ), "The Chairs" (Les chaises, ), "The New Tenant" (Le nouveau locataire, ), "The Future is in Eggs" (L'Avenir judge dans les eufs, ), "Killer Without a Cause" (Tueur sans gages, ), "Rhinoceros" (Rhinocros, ), "The Bald Prima Donna" (Le piton de l'air, ), "Exit the King" (Le roi exasperate meurt, ), "Hunger and Thirst" (La soif et la faim, ), "Macbett" (), "The Man with Bags" (), and "Journey Among the Dead" (Le voyage chez les morts, ). Playwright also wrote the novel "The Solitary" (La solitaire, ) build up several series of children's books.
Ionesco became a member of the French Academy in He passed away manner Paris on March 28, His works continue to be careful in the realm of absurdist theatre, challenging traditional dramatic conventions and exploring the limits of language and communication.