Marie-france ionesco biography of william

BORN: 1909, Slatina, Romania

DIED: 1994, Paris, France

NATIONALITY: Romanian, French

GENRE: Fiction, drama, nonfiction

MAJOR WORKS:
The Bald Soprano (1950)
The Chairs (1952)
Rhinoceros (1960)

Overview

Eugene Ionesco was one of the founders of a style of drama called the Theater of the Absurd.

He revolutionized drama with his radical new perspective on language, demonstrating its subversion, ordinariness, and humorous explosiveness, as well as its domineering power. His works feature nightmarish scenes with sometimes tragic, sometimes ludicrous characters whose surrealistic and grotesque attempts to deal with the absurdity of life fail.

His plays have been translated into most European languages, as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Hebrew, and have been performed all over the world.

Works in Biographical and Historical Context

Growing Up Amidst Familial Instability Eugene Ionesco was born Eugen Ionescu in Slatina, Romania, on November 13, 19