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Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco

French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994)

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Some Poems

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.
For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.
Beckett, Ionesco, and the Theater of the Absurd: Crash Course Theater #45
Interview with Ionesco part 1
Résumé et Analyse de Rhinocéros - Eugène Ionesco 🦏
Eugène Ionesco
Teatro La cantatrice calva di Eugène Ionesco Franca Valeri Renzo Montagnani by Casimiro
Ionesco : Pourquoi il faut défendre la culture - #CulturePrime
Rinocerii - Eugène Ionesco
Regele moare (Eugène Ionesco) | cu Victor Rebengiuc, Mariana Mihuț
Eugène Ionesco au micro de Jacques Chancel : Radioscopie (1973 / France Inter)
An Interview with Eugene Ionesco - Screener
The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco (romanian, english subtitles).
Entrevue avec le dramaturge Eugène Ionesco en 1961
Rhinoceros (1974) - trailer
Rhinocéros d'Eugène Ionesco
UMS Presents: Teaching Ionesco's Rhinoceros
Eugène Ionesco en 1976, à propos des questions existentielles posées par son théâtre
French the natural way: Qui est Eugène Ionesco ?
Rhinoceros : Play by Eugène Ionesco in Hindi summary Explanation and full analysis
Eugène Ionesco: "Konuşmak anlamsızdır, susmak daha da anlamsızdır."
Ptit résumé de Rhinocéros : le résumé pour les pressés !
Entrevista a Eugène Ionesco, Dramaturgo (1981) | Ricardo Rocha
Un petit classique ? Rhinocéros d'Eugène Ionesco (Résumé / analyse)
Rhinoceros (1974) 1080p
Rhinoceros - full show
Eugene Ionesco - Lectia
Români care au schimbat lumea: Eugen Ionescu (@TVR1)
Rhinoceros play (Eugene Ionesco) Full Analysis with Themes and Theme of Absurdity Explained Eng Hons
Summary Audiobook - "The Bald Soprano" by Eugene Ionesco
IONESCO publie "Hugoliade"
Dall'assurdo alla speranza. Omaggio a Eugène Ionesco
The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco||Malayalam summary
Rhinoceros by EUGENE IONESCO Full Summary and Analysis ( Everything Covered No Need to Read Text )
Eugène Ionesco, săgeata lui Gherman
Benedict Cumberbatch - Rhinoceros
The Lesson
Exit the King by Eugène Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco despre Regele Mihai, la Ora Regelui, pe TVR1
Cantareata cheala (2008) - Eugene Ionesco
La Cantante Calva. Eugène Ionesco.
The Bald Soprano
Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco Summary in English
Delir in doi... in trei, in cati vrei - Eugene Ionesco
Documental Ionesco.avi
Eugène Ionesco et le « théâtre de l’absurde », par Pierre Brunel
Theater Talk: Geoffrey Rush, star of the Broadway revival of Eugene Ionesco's "Exit the King."
Paul Capsis and iOTA take on Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs | Art Works
TEATRO Delirio a due Eugene Ionesco R Rascel F Mammi 1967
La Leçon, Eugène IONESCO
"THE LESSON" by Eugene Ionesco (A Lesson On Oppression)
Ionesco : Rhinoceros - 1

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