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Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, (November 26, 1909 – March 29, 1994) was one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the absurd. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict in a tangible way the solitude of humans and the insignificance of one's existence.
Biographical information
Ionesco was born on November 26, 1909, in Slatina, Romania, to a Romanian father and a French mother. Many sources cite his birthdate as 1912, this error being due to vanity on the part of Ionesco himself *. He spent most of his childhood in France, but returned to Romania with his father in 1925 after his parents divorced. There he studied French Literature at the University of Bucharest from 1928 to 1933 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met Emil Cioran and Mircea Eliade, and the three became lifelong friends
In 1936 Ionesco married Rodica Burileanu. Together they had one daughter for whom he wrote a number of unconventional children's stories. He and his family returned to France in 1938 for him to complete his doctoral thesis. Caught by the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he remained there, living in Marseille during the war before moving with his family to Paris after its liberation in 1944. In 1967 Ionesco made a visit to Israel and, in the second volume of his autobiography, affirmed his Jewish origins.
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"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind." - Eugène Ionesco http://tumblr.com/x1s4ha825
R0cketToMars (Wimsie ) Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:43:08 -0000
"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind." - Eugène Ionesco http://tumblr.com/x1s4ha825
Eugène Ionesco - Need.. sleep⦠read⦠ZZzzzz⦠Turning into a rhinoceros. http://tumblr.com/x1s4ha1lf
R0cketToMars (Wimsie ) Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:35:05 -0000
Eugène Ionesco - Need.. sleep… read… ZZzzzz… Turning into a rhinoceros. http://tumblr.com/x1s4ha1lf
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." â Eugene Ionesco
tatyanaln (Tetyana Nekrasova) Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:54:32 -0000
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." — Eugene Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco: Wir glauben, Erfahrungen zu machen, aber die Erfahrungen machen uns. http://bit.ly/133FUM
hitschulungen (hitschulungen.de) Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:55:44 -0000
Eugène Ionesco: Wir glauben, Erfahrungen zu machen, aber die Erfahrungen machen uns. http://bit.ly/133FUM
Describe un cÃrculo, después acarÃcialo y se convertirá en un circulo vicioso.-Eugene Ionesco
Snakeeyes_hn (Mario Alexis) Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:36:33 -0000
Describe un círculo, después acarícialo y se convertirá en un circulo vicioso.-Eugene Ionesco
Feeling absurd? Check out the The Bald Soprano and The Lesson (Eugene Ionesco) at Kjer Theatre. Dec 3-5 & 9-12 at 7:30 and Dec 6 at 1:30.
siriously (Siri Brobst) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:59:50 -0000
Feeling absurd? Check out the The Bald Soprano and The Lesson (Eugene Ionesco) at Kjer Theatre. Dec 3-5 & 9-12 at 7:30 and Dec 6 at 1:30.
co at infoplease.com - Brief biography.
Meta Description: [ November 26 birthdays: Eugene Ionesco, Norbert Wiener, Charles Schulz, Sarah Moore Grimke, Katharine Drexel, John Harvard, Mary Edwards Walker, Willis Carrier, Robert Goulet, Tina Turner ]
Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994) - Biography of absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco, plus links to all of his works currently in print.
Meta Description: [ Biography of French playwright Eugene Ionesco, plus links to all of his works currently in print. ]
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Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994) - Brief biography (and photograph) of the author.
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