Ionesco, Eugene (Vol. 1) - Ionesco, Eugene 1912–
Ionesco, Eugene 1912–
Rumanian-born French experimental playwright, Ionesco is associated with the Theater of the Absurd. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-10.)
Molière's twentieth-century disciple is Eugene Ionesco who—noting that "scientific" political movements like Nazism offered contemporary proof of his master's axioms—not only adapted Molière's short interlude in The Lesson but made its moral central to his entire work. In Rhinoceros, he has not varied his theme; he has merely found another form through which to express it.
Robert Brustein, "The Enormous Sum of Zero: Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco" (1961), in his Seasons of Discontent: Dramatic Opinions 1959–1965 (© 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 by Robert Brustein; reprinted by permission of Simon and Schuster, Inc.), Simon & Schuster, 1965, pp. 119-22.
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