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Eugen Ionesco – Fighting The Absurd With Its Own Weapons
Watch this interview with Eugen Ionesco in which he talks about his childhood, studies and personality among other facts:
The situation in his native country (the abdication of King Charles II, the crimes committed by the fascist movement of the Legionnaires) made him deeply regret not having stayed in France and, with the help of some influential friends, he was appointed cultural attaché of the Romanian embassy at Vichy in 1942. From that moment on, France became his adoptive country.
He had to face some financial problems in the beginning, but he joyfully received a new member in his family, as his daughter Marie-France, was born in 1944, and the situation improved as the war ended.
In 1948, he started writing on a play that would later be named “The Bald Prima Donna”, his first great absurd work, who was performed from the first time in 1950, at the Theatre des Noctambules, under the direction of Nicolas Bataille. The play wasn’t very successful, as many contemporaries didn’t understand it, provided there is something to understand in it, but, in time, the public ended up in enjoying this new kind of literature and, until today, it has remained one of those plays that can be performed over and over again and still preserve the fascination they exercise upon the audience.
To describe its action or to explain its meaning is an impossible task. It’s enough to say that, using subtle twists of language and situations, “The Bald Prima Donna” plays with the reader’s or viewer’s mind, revealing to him the degradation of human relationships, at an unconscious level.
Other famous absurd plays written by Eugen Ionesco are: “The Lesson”, “The Chairs”, “The Leader”, “Victims of Duty”, “The Future Is in Eggs ”,“ The Rhinoceros”,” Exit the King ”,“ Hunger and Thirst”.
In 1970, Eugen Ionesco was elected member of the French Academy and, the same year, he received the Great Austrian prize of European Literature; in 1985, he received the Monte-Carlo International Prize of Contemporary Art. Many other distinctions and awards followed throughout his life.
Author: Iulian Fira
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