Who is eugene ionesco

Beside him Rodika, also slight, with dark slanted eyes and an ivory complexion, looks like a placid oriental doll. During the course of the interview she brought us tea and frequently asked how we were getting on.

At the age of one. I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores—its anti-Semitism for example. It was the time of the rise of Nazism and everyone was becoming pro-Nazi—writers, teachers, biologists, historians. It was a plague! They despised France and England because they were yiddified and racially impure.

I remember one day there was a military parade. A lieutenant was marching in front of the palace guards. I can still see him carrying the flag. I was standing beside a peasant with a big fur hat who was watching the parade, absolutely wide-eyed. My thoughts were not yet organized or coherent at that age, but I had feelings, a certain nascent humanism, and I found these things inadmissible. The worst thing of all, for an adolescent, was to be different from everyone else. Could I be right and the whole country wrong?

The France I knew was my childhood paradise. I had lost it, and I was inconsolable. So I planned to go back as soon as I could. But first, I had to get through school and university, and then get a grant. I always had been. When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete.

The strange juxtaposition of euphoric peace with meaningless reality would come to influence his life and work. After Ionesco moved to Romania as a teenager, his parents divorced. He studied French literature at the University of Bucharest. Ionesco married Rodicia Burileanu, and they had one daughter, to whom he wrote a number of unusual children's stories. After the war, they relocated to Paris.

Ionesco would earn critical acclaim as a playwright, but but he did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano , until Having decided to learn English at the age of forty, Ionesco found inspiration in, of all things, his language primer. Simple sentences constructed by simple words struck him as alternatively profound, mysterious, tragic, and hilarious. He wrote The Bald Soprano to satirize the construction of a middle-class family trapped in a world defined by meaningless formalities and stale routines.

To his surprise, the tiny production received critical praise and catapulted the middle-aged man into a vibrant writing career. His plays, or "anti-plays," as he called them, break theatrical traditions of plot and sequence. Correcting the writing of others left him little time to produce his own work, but little did he know he was holding a secret weapon up his sleeve.

The premiere was far from a success, but gained the attention of a few important critics who would skyrocket his career in the years to come. Ionesco never appreciated his work being called absurd, however, feeling that the term reduced a piece into a single category.

Throughout the s, Ionesco continued to produce many theatrical pieces, enough to finally live off his own work. Throughout the late s, Ionesco increasingly infiltrated himself into varying political groups, attracted by their absurdity in nature, and inadvertently earning himself a hardened right-wing sympathizer.

Ionesco succumbed to his ailments at the age of 84, and was buried with his wife at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris, you can visit his tomb to this day.