Eugene Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco (in Romanian Eugen Ionescu, Slatina, Romania, November 26, 1909 - Paris, France, March 28, 1994) was a playwright and Franco-Romanian writer in the French language, elected to the French Academy on January 22, 1970 and awarded the 1970 State Prize for European Literature and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize. He was one of the leading playwrights of the theater of the absurd, which includes a series of works that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of the absurd.

Biography

Eugène Ionesco tomb in the cemetery of Montparnasse.

Ionesco was born in Slatina, Romania, to a Romanian father and a French mother. He traveled to Paris at the age of one and lived there until he was thirteen. In 1925 he returned to Romania and studied Literature. He taught French for three years in a Bucharest Institute, until in 1938 he returned to France to settle permanently. He worked in a publishing house, then in a bank and began a doctoral thesis on death in French poetry that he would not finish. He was associated with the group of the literary magazine Les Cahiers du Sud before devoting himself entirely to his dramatic production.

His first play, The Bald Singer, premiered at the Théâtre des Noctambules in 1950. His intelligence, novelty and break with logic led him to fame, fame that would not leave him in his later works. He was, together with the Irishman Samuel Beckett, the father of the theater of the absurd, through which he makes « of a burlesque text, a dramatic game; and from a dramatic text a burlesque game». Beyond the mere ridicule of banal situations, Ionesco's works reflect the loneliness of humans and the insignificance of worshiping empty idols, among other themes.

He died in 1994 and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.

Honors and Awards

Tomb of Ionesco in the cemetery of Montparnasse, Paris. The registration is translated: Pray I don't know who: Jesus Christ, I hope

Ionesco became a member of the Académie française in 1970. He also received numerous awards, including the Tours Film Festival Award, 1959; Italy Prize, 1963; Society of Theater Authors Award, 1966; National Theater Grand Prize, 1969; Monaco Grand Prix, 1969; Austrian State Prize for European Literature, 1970; Jerusalem Prize, 1973; and honorary doctorates from New York University and the Universities of Leuven, Warwick, and Tel Aviv. In 1964 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Death

Eugène Ionesco died at the age of 84 on March 28, 1994 and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. In 2009, Ionesco was granted posthumous membership by the Romanian Academy.

Works

Theater

• The singer calva (1950)
• The lesson (1950)
• The future is in the eggs (1951)
• The teacher (1951)
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• Victims of duty (1952)
• Amadeo or how to get out of the way (1953)
• The young housekeeper (1953)
• Jacques or submission (1955)
• L'impromtu de l'alma (The improvisation of the soul(1955)
• The new tenant (1956)
• The rhinoceros (1959)
• The king dies (1962)
• Delirium to duo (1962)
• The photo du colonel (The picture of the colonel(1962)
• Table (1962)
• The air pedestrian (1962)
• thirst and hunger (1964)
• Jeux de massacre (The game of the plague(1970)
• Macbett (1972)
• That formidable brothel (1973)
• The suitcase man. (1975)
• Voyages chez les morts (Travel to the other world(1980)
• News of the front of Batalla
• Shut up. (1981)
• The tente du parnet

Essays

• The tragédie du langage (1958)
• Expérience du théâtre (1958)
• Discours sur l'avant-garde (1959)
• Notes and counternotes (1962)
• Découvertes (Discovery(1969)
• Antidotes (1977)
• Le blanc et le noir (The black and white(1981)
• preface to the book Qu'a-t-on fait de Rhinocéros d'Eugène Ionesco à travers le monde?: Allemagne, France, Roumanie, Iran, Japon, U.S.A. (1995) of Ahmad Kamyabi Mask

Newspapers, novels and articles

• The Vase (1956)
• Le Piéton de l'air (1961)
• Journal in miettes (1967). Published in Spanish by Editorial Guadarrama in 1968: «Diary» with translation of Marcelo Arroita-Jauregui
• Présent passeé, Passe présent (1968). Published in Spanish by Guadarrama: «Diary II»
• Le solitaire (1973)
• The photo du colonel (The picture of the colonel(1962)
• The vase. (The mud(1970). Guion
• The lonely (novela) (1974)
• Accounts for children under three (1976)
• A man in question (1979) Collection of articles
• The intermittent search (1987) Journal