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Eugene Ionesco
Standard Name: Ionesco, Eugene
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Ann Quin | AQ
published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. qtd. in Sewell, Brocard, and Colin Wilson. Like Black Swans: Some People and Themes. Limited Edition, Tabb House, 1982. 186 |
| Literary responses | Ali Smith | Its generic peculiarities were reflected in its reception. Scotland Times reviewer Robert Dawson Scott
asserted that its manner of toying with the tenets of theatre made Pirandello
and Ionesco
look like straight up-and-down naturalists, avoiding... |
| Textual Features | Ali Smith | Although certainly located in the Brechtian
tradition of epic theatre, with its political resonances and self-referentiality, it is likewise identifiable as theatre of the absurd (as AS
points out), Smith, Ali. “Just”. Shell Connections 2005: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, 2005, pp. 275-24. 317 |
| Textual Production | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | For this column she reviewed authors such as Sylvia Plath
, D. H. Lawrence
, Thom Gunn
, Ted Hughes
, Cesare Pavese
, Eugene Ionesco
, Simone de Beauvoir
, Jorge Luis Borges
,... |
Timeline
11 May 1950: The play by the Romanian-French dramatist...
Writing climate item
11 May 1950
The play by the Romanian-French dramatist Eugene Ionesco
which was later translated as The Bald Soprano (occasionally as The Bald Prima Donna) opened in Paris. For many later literary historians this signalled the...
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