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Eug̬ne Ionesco, Romanian Playwright

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Eug̬ne Ionesco (November 26, 1909 - March 28, 1994) was a Romanian playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict the solitude and insignificance of human existence in a tangible way. Though best known as a playwright, plays were not his first chosen medium. He started writing poetry and criticism, publishing in several Romanian journals. Like Beckett, Ionesco began his theater career late; he did not write his first play until 1948. His earliest works, and his most innovative, were all one-act nonsense plays or extended sketches. Ionesco is often considered a writer of the Theatre of the Absurd, a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s, as well as one for the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. Their work expressed what happens when human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down, in fact alerting their audiences to pursue the opposite. Logical construction and argument gives way to irrational and illogical speech and to its ultimate conclusion, silence. He died in 1994 at the age of 84. No photographer credited, undated.

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Photo12/Alamy/Science History Images

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uniquement en France

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Non

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Non

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Droits gérés

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43,8Mo (1,5Mo) / 26,7cm x 41,1cm / 3151 x 4857 (300dpi)

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