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Biography

Name: Eugène Ionesco
Birth Date: November 26, 1912
Death Date: March 28, 1994
Place of Birth: Slatina, Romania
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: Romanian
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, playwright

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Biography of Eugène Ionesco
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The popular plays of the Franco-Romanian author Eugène Ionesco (1912-1994) protested the dehumanizing effects of modern civilization and depicted the despair of the individual who vainly seeks meaning for his or her existence. He has been called...


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Eugène Ionesco Quotes
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Eugène Ionesco , born Eugen Ionescu ( 26 November 1909 – 29 March 1994 ) was a French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of Theatre of the Absurd . Sourced That's not it. That's not it at all. You always have a...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Eugène Ionesco Information
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Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu (November 26, 1909 – March 29, 1994), was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays...


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by Patrick Roberts
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In the following essay, Roberts explores the intensification of plot, incongruity, and parodistic fantasy that are characteristic of Ionesco’s plays, and asserts that his dramas display “the insight of a veritable master of the irrational.”
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Critical Essay by Robert L. Tener
7,287 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Tener treats the use of d&eacaute;cor and other visual and aural theatrical metaphors as the dramatic expression of internal and external forces that surround the protagonist in Ionesco’s Bérenger plays.
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Critical Essay by Michael Holland
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In the following essay, Holland argues that Ionesco, the radical innovator, restored Tradition to theater with his discovery of the inherent theatricality of language, as he moved away from the defeatist and fatalist attitudes of other modernists and brought theater back to the stage in the form of original work.
 


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