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Ionesco

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Io·nes·co  (-nsk, y-), Eugène 1912-1994.
Romanian-born French dramatist whose plays The Bald Soprano (1956) and Rhinoceros (1959) are classics of the Theater of the Absurd.

Ionesco [ˌiːəˈnɛskəʊ (French) jɔnɛsko]
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(Biographies / Ionesco, Eugène (1912-1994) M, Frenchnational of birth: Romanian, THEATRE: dramatist) Eugène (øʒɛn). 1912-94, French dramatist, born in Romania; a leading exponent of the theatre of the absurd. His plays include The Bald Prima Donna (1950) and Rhinoceros (1960)
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Noun1.Ionesco - French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994)


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Perhaps Eugene Ionesco has probed as deeply as any playwright the conflict between being and non-being in a number of its manifestations.
Her Europeans were (at least to me) exotic, risque: Lukacs, Sartre, Camus, Leiris, Artaud, Weil, Sarraute, Pavese, Cioran, Ionesco, Godard, Bresson, Resnais, Bergman .
I do not need to go looking for 'happenings,' the absurd, or the surreal," he said, "because I have seen things that neither Dali, Beckett, Ionesco nor any of the others could have thought possible; and to see these things I did not need to do more than look out of my studio window" (6).
 
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