Ionesco told Claude Bonnefoy in an interview, " I wanted to give a meaning to the play by having it begin all over again with two characters.

The authors Raymond Queneau, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Boris Vian and Jean Ferry have described themselves as following the ' pataphysical tradition.

According to various authors, Caragiale was also a predecessor of Absurdism, and he is known to have been cited as an influence by the Absurdist dramatist Eugène Ionesco.

Important foreign writers who have lived and worked in France ( especially Paris ) in the twentieth century include: Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Julio Cortázar, Vladimir Nabokov, Eugène Ionesco.

Important foreign writers who have lived and worked in France ( especially Paris ) in the twentieth century include: Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Julio Cortázar, Vladimir Nabokov, Eugène Ionesco.

In the first ( 1961 ) edition, Esslin presented the four defining playwrights of the movement as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet, and in subsequent editions he added a fifth playwright, Harold Pinter – although each of these writers has unique preoccupations and characteristics that go beyond the term " absurd.

Her home was also a stage for famous writers such as Henry Miller, Graham Greene and Ionesco.

Rosset introduced American readers to numerous significant writers, including Samuel Beckett ( Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 ), Pablo Neruda ( Nobel Prize 1971 ), Octavio Paz ( Nobel Prize 1990 ), Kenzaburō Ōe ( Nobel Prize 1994 ), Harold Pinter ( Nobel Prize 2005 ), Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Khushwant Singh, Jean Genet, John Rechy, Eugène Ionesco and Tom Stoppard.

Inspired by the theatrical experiments in the early half of the century and by the horrors of the war, the so-called avant-garde Parisian theater, " New Theater " or " Theatre of the Absurd " around the writers Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal refused simple explanations and abandoned traditional characters, plots and staging.

For example, in Ionesco's Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It, a couple must deal with a corpse that is steadily growing larger and larger ; Ionesco never fully reveals the identity of the corpse, how this person died, or why it's continually growing, but the corpse ultimately – and, again, without explanation – floats away.

Cioran, Eliade, Ionesco – L ' oubli du fascisme.

* Eugène Ionesco – Rhinoceros

" – Eugène Ionesco

* Eva Ionesco – assistant producer

Ionesco accused Sartre of supporting Communism but ignoring the atrocities committed by Communists ; he wrote Rhinoceros as a criticism of blind conformity, whether it be to Nazism or Communism ; at the end of the play, one man remains on Earth resisting transformation into a rhinoceros Sartre criticized Rhinoceros by questioning: " Why is there one man who resists?

The depolitisation of Eliade after the start of his diplomatic career was also mistrusted by his former close friend Eugène Ionesco, who indicated that, upon the close of World War II, Eliade's personal beliefs as communicated to his friends amounted to " all is over now that Communism has won ".

The authors she has translated and who are represented in the collection include Jean Hamburger ( Le Journal de William Harvey ), Eugene Ionesco, Alfred Jarry, Pierre Lauer, Robert Pinget, Raymond Queneau, Nathalie Sarraute and Stefan Themerson.

In 1946, Ionesco indicated to Petru Comarnescu that he did not want to see either Eliade or Cioran, and that he considered the two of them " Legionaries for ever "— adding " we are hyenas to one another ".

His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations are inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco, Giraudoux and Beckett.

Of his many collaborations, the most acclaimed are his book illustrations for Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett in the late 1960s.

Eugène Ionesco in particular was fond of Surrealism, claiming at one point that Breton was one of the most important thinkers in history.

Some of the most important works of the century were written by foreign authors in French ( Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett ).

Some of the most important works of the century in French were written by foreign authors ( Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett ).

Likewise, the concept of ' Pataphysics –" the science of imaginary solutions "– first presented in Jarry's Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien ( Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician ) was inspirational to many later Absurdists, some of whom joined the Collège de ' pataphysique, founded in honor of Jarry in 1948 ( Ionesco, Arrabal, and Vian were given the title Transcendent Satrape of the Collège de ' pataphysique ).

Ionesco, Adamov, and Arrabal for example, were friends with Surrealists still living in Paris at the time including Paul Eluard and André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, and Beckett translated many Surrealist poems by Breton and others from French into English.

Many other Absurdists were born elsewhere but lived in France, writing often in French: Samuel Beckett from Ireland ; Eugène Ionesco from Romania ; Arthur Adamov from Russia ; Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal from Spain.

The transition he went through was similar to that of his fellow generation members and close collaborators — among the notable exceptions to this rule were Petru Comarnescu, sociologist Henri H. Stahl and future dramatist Eugène Ionesco, as well as Sebastian.

In the arts and culture, prominent figures were George Enescu ( music composer, violinist, professor of Sir Yehudi Menuhin ), Constantin Brâncuşi ( sculptor ), Eugène Ionesco ( playwright ), Mircea Eliade ( historian of religion and novelist ), Emil Cioran ( essayist, Prix de l ' Institut Francais for stylism ) and Angela Gheorghiu ( soprano ).

Ionesco states in an essay written to his critics, that he had no intention of parody, but if he were parodying anything, it would be everything.

Upon his entrance into the University, he met Eugène Ionesco and Mircea Eliade, the three of them becoming lifelong friends.

* The common "- escu " final particle in Romanian being traditionally changed to "- esco " in French spellings and being occasionally adopted by the persons themselves as a French equivalent of their names ( see Eugène Ionesco, Irina Ionesco, Marthe Bibesco ).

David Edelstein of Slate also compared the film to Cocteau's work, commenting that " the storyline is your standard obsessed-mad-doctor saga, one step above a Poverty Row Bela Lugosi feature ... ut it's Lugosi by way of Cocteau and Ionesco ".

In a 1966 interview, Claude Bonnefoy, comparing the Absurdists to Sartre and Camus, said to Ionesco, " It seems to me that Beckett, Adamov and yourself started out less from philosophical reflections or a return to classical sources, than from first-hand experience and a desire to find a new theatrical expression that would enable you to render this experience in all its acuteness and also its immediacy.

They include: peace movements, strikes, labor unions, long hair on men, The Beatles, other modern and popular music (" la musique populaire "), Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Aeschylus, writing that Socrates was homosexual, Eugène Ionesco, Jean-Paul Sartre, Anton Chekhov, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Mark Twain, Samuel Beckett, the bar association, sociology, international encyclopedias, free press, and new math.

In 1970 Beck's work was denounced alongside Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett by Nëndori, the literary monthly of Albania, for supposedly being " inundated by mysticism and pornography.

The idea of the play came to Ionesco while he was trying to learn English with the Assimil method.

In 1977 her mother lost custody of her children and Eva Ionesco was brought up by the parents of footwear designer Christian Louboutin.

He was previously a member of The Suicide Machines, Telegraph, Gyga, Thoughts of Ionesco, Remainder, Walls of Jericho, The Exceptions and Broken Spoke, a side band with Royce Nunley and Jay Navarro.

Furthermore, Josef Hiršal built a reputation as a translator of foreign works into the Czech language, translating the works of, among others, Christian Morgenstern, Ernst Jandl, Eugène Ionesco, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, Heinrich Heine, H. C. Artmann, Helmut Heissenbüttel, Fernando Pessoa and Torquato Tasso ; in 1989, he received the Grand Austrian State Prize for his translations.

For example, The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco is essentially a series of clichés taken from a language textbook.

At 17, she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play, Exit the King.

He began to lose the favor of audiences and critics alike, however, with the emergence of such playwrights as Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.

Playwrights commonly associated with the Theatre of the Absurd include Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal and Edward Albee.

The Alfred Jarry Theatre, founded by Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac, housed several Absurdist plays, including ones by Ionesco and Adamov.

Ionesco, however, hated Sartre bitterly.

Ionesco followed this with The Lesson ( La Leçon ) in 1951 and The Chairs ( Les Chaises ) in 1952.

* Ionesco, Eugène.

Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter.

* Gaensbauer, Deborah B. Eugène Ionesco Revisited.

Ionesco.

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

Here, Mirbeau can be seen as anticipating the theatre of Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Aymé, Harold Pinter, and Eugène Ionesco.