It was this work that became a classic example of the 'theater of the absurd' - the literary trend, which Ionesco adhered to in his work.Įugene Ionesco died in March 1994. The most glorified Ionesco plays, but he also wrote stories and essays.Īs a playwright Eugene made his debut in 1950 with the play 'Bald Singer', which he wrote under the influence of a self-taught English teacher. Returning to Paris, Ionescu wrote a thesis about Charles Baudelaire, and also actively engaged in writing his own works. However, this enthusiasm of the people seemed wild to the playwright himself, later this experience became the theme of 'Rhinoceroses' and other of his works. Becoming a playwrightĮven while studying in Bucharest, Eugene found the birth of the popularity of pro-fascist movements. Ionesco wrote his first poems in Romanian, and over the years of his life in Romania he began to forget French, so that, having returned to France, he had to learn the second native language again. But in 1938 he returned to his mother's homeland and stayed to live in Paris forever.

Here he entered the University of Bucharest, planning to teach French. When Eugene Ionesco grew up, he tried to live with his father in Romania. Mother took the children and went to their homeland, to France.

With the onset of the First World Relations between the parents, the boy was spoiled, and they parted.

Since childhood, the boy spoke several languages, including French. Biography of Eugène IonescoĪ playwright was born in Romania in 1909, as his father was from there and his mother was French. 'Rhinoceroses' (in another translation, 'Rhinoceros') is a play in which he described the mechanism of the appearance in society of an alien phenomenon that gradually turns into a norm. One of the first attempts to explain the rise of fascism and similar movements was made by the French writer Eugene Ionesco. Most of all, mankind was concerned with the question of how clever, educated and kind people allowed the extermination of millions of fellow citizens only for the reason that they were of a different origin.

When the Second World War died down, people all over the world began to wonder how it could get out so that fascism arose in the middle of civilized Europe.

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