1. Eugene Ionesco --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Eugene Ionesco Romanianborn French dramatist whose one-act antiplay La Cantatrice chauve (1949; http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9042695/Eugene-Ionesco

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5. Eugene Ionesco Eugene Ionesco s mother was French and the family soon moved to Paris. Ionesco wrote his first play at 13. The family returned to Rumania and Eugene Ionesco http://www.biogs.com/famous/ionesco.html

@import "profile.css"; Eugene Ionesco Eugene Ionesco was born in November 1912 in Slatina, Rumania. Eugene Ionesco's mother was French and the family soon moved to Paris. Ionesco wrote his first play at 13. The family returned to Rumania and Eugene Ionesco studied French at the University of Bucharest, and he started to write poetry and literary criticism. Eugene Ionesco then began teaching French at a school in Bucharest. In 1936 Ionesco married Rodica Burileano and in 1938 they went back to France. During World War II Ionesco worked in a publishing house and, in 1944, his daughter, Marie-France was born. In 1948 Eugene Ionesco started learning English and it was the texts that he used featuring Mr and Mrs Smith that inspired the brilliant play, La Cantatrice Chauve translated as The Bald Prima Donna or The Bold Soprano. In the play Mrs Smith says: "Yoghurt is very good for the stomach, the lumber regions, appendicitis and apotheosis." Amongst other great plays, Eugene Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros, The Lesson, and The Chairs. In the end he published only one novel, Le Solitaire (The Hermit, 1973). It is a masterpiece, and starts: "At thirty-five, it's high time to quit the rat race. Assuming there is a rat race. I was sick and tired of my job. It was already late: I was fast approaching forty."

6. Eugene Ionesco The Romanianborn Eugène ionesco, b. Nov. 26, 1912 d. 1994, is one of the foremost playwrights of the Theater of the Absurd. The son of a Romanian father http://www.levity.com/corduroy/ionesco.htm

Living is abnormal. from The Rhinoceros The Romanian-born , b. Nov. 26, 1912 [d. 1994], is one of the foremost playwrights of the Theater of the Absurd. The son of a Romanian father and a French mother, he spent most of his childhood in France, but in his early teenage years returned to Romania, where he qualified as a teacher of French and married in 1936. He returned to France in 1938 to complete his doctoral thesis. Caught by the outbreak of war in 1939, he settled there, earning his living as a proofreader for publishers. Ionesco came to playwriting almost by chance. Having decided to learn English, he was struck by the emptiness of the cliches of daily conversation that appeared in his phrase book. Out of such nonsensical sentences he constructed his first play, The Bald Soprano (1950; Eng. trans., 1958), which satirizes the deadliness and idiocy of the daily life of a bourgeois society frozen in meaningless formalities. Greatly surprised by the success of the play, Ionesco embarked on a career as a writer of what he called antiplays, which characteristically combine a dream or nightmare atmosphere with grotesque, bizarre, and whimsical humor. In his work the tragic and farcical are fused. In The Lesson (1951; Eng. trans., 1958), a teacher gains domination over his pupil through his superior use of language and finally kills her. In

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Ionesco did not write his first play until 1950. Having decided at the age of 40 that he ought to learn English, Ionesco acquired an English text and set to work, conscientiously copying whole sentences from his primer for the purpose of memorizing them. Rereading them attentively, he learned not English but some astonishing truthsthat, for example, there are seven days in the week, something he already knew; that the floor is down, the ceiling up, things he already knew as well, perhaps, but that he had never seriously thought about or had forgotten, and that seemed to him, suddenly, as stupefying as they were indisputably true. Ionesco set about translating his experience into a play, The Bald Soprano , which was staged by Nicolas Bataille on May 11, 1950, at the Noctambules. The Bald Soprano went unnoticed, however, until a few established writers and critics (Jean Anouilh, Raymond Queneau, and Jacques Lemarchand) saw the play and supported it publicly. Their campaign to attract an audience for the play succeeded and the middle-aged Ionesco soon found himself in a position of international renown. He went on to write more than twenty plays including Rhinoceros, The Chairs, Jack or The Submission, The Lesson, The Killer, Exit the King, Macbett

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Born, Slatina, Romania, 1909 Died, Paris, France, 1994 The following biography by Jerome P. Crabb was originally published on this website on October 14, 2006. Purchase Plays by Eugene Ionesco Zodiac review. A volume of poetry, Elegy of Miniscule Beings , followed in 1931, and in 1934 he published a collection of essays entitled No . In 1938, he received a fellowship from the Rumanian government to write a thesis on the subject of death in modern French poetry. He moved to Paris and began his research, but the German invasion (1940) soon forced him to relocate to Marseilles. He returned to Paris five years later, after its liberation from the Germans, and found work as a proofreader and translator. Ionesco set about translating his experience into a play, The Bald Soprano The Bald Soprano The Lesson The Chairs (1952), and Jack or The Submission London Observer everyone was talking about it. On January 25, 1960, Rhinoceros Rhinoceros The Killer Exit the King Hunger and Thirst Macbett (1972), and Journeys Among the Dead FURTHER STUDIES: Eugene Ionesco Quotes - A collection of quotations.

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Browse quotes by subject Browse quotes by author EUGENE IONESCO QUOTES When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about. EUGENE IONESCO, Jack, or The Submission Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality. EUGENE IONESCO, Notes and Counter Notes I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. EUGENE IONESCO, Notes and Counter Notes We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory. EUGENE IONESCO, Present Past / Past Present Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name! EUGENE IONESCO, Jack, or The Submission A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him. EUGENE IONESCO

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Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog From Wikimedia Commons 1 picture add a picture Author: Eugene Ionesco Also known as: Eugene Aonesco Ionesco E Eugene Ionesco Eug¨ne Ionesco ... Eugene Ionescu Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Eugene Ionesco combine/separate works Four plays 304 copies, review Rhinoc©ros 270 copies, 1 review Rhinoceros, and other plays 240 copies, 1 review The bald soprano; anti-play 115 copies, review 93 copies, review Exit the king 59 copies, review Rhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson 51 copies, review Am©d©e The new tenant. Victims of duty 43 copies, review The hermit 43 copies, review Les Chaises 29 copies, review 27 copies, review Fragments of a Journal 24 copies, review The Killer, and Other Plays 23 copies, review Notes and counter-notes 22 copies, review La Le§on 21 copies, review see all 74 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars

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