Theatre of the absurd characteristics
Theatre of the absurd playwrights!
Eugene Ionesco
| French playwright Date of Birth: Country: France |
Content:
- Eugene Ionesco Biography
- Early Life and Education
- Early Literary Career
- The Theatre of the Absurd
- Later Years and Legacy
Eugene Ionesco Biography
Eugene Ionesco () was a French playwright and one of the leading representatives of the illogical, tragicomic drama known as the "theatre of the absurd".
Theatre of the absurd plays
His plays' situations, characters, and dialogues follow dreamlike images and associations rather than everyday reality. Through the use of amusing paradoxes, clichés, proverbs, and other verbal games, language in Ionesco's works is freed from conventional meanings and associations.
Early Life and Education
Ionesco was born on November 26, , in Slatina, Romania.
His parents took him to Paris as a child, and French became his first language. The family returned to Romania when he was a teenager. He enrolled in the University of Bucharest, intending to become a French language teacher.