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Eugene Ionesco

Its biography

Eugene Ionesco was born on November 26, 1912 in Slanita Romania, are father one Rumanian lawyer is his mother is French.

In 1913 the Ionesco family comes to settle in Paris in order to allow the father of Eugene to prepare his doctorate of right.

Difficult period of instability and poverty. Environment is tended between parents of Eugene.

From 1913 to 1925 Eugene Ionesco lives especially Paris with his mother.

In 1916 His father turns over to Romania, which entered the war into same time, Ionesco regularly visits each Thursday the puppet theatre with Garden of Luxembourg.

In 1917 its father, which one thought that it fell to the war, Marie of new. It always leans towards the side of the capacity of any color. It is one of the reasons for the reports/ratios tended between Ionesco and its father.

In 1925 Ionesco at 13 years. It must turn over to Romania with his sister with the continuation divorce of his/her parents, his father having obtained the guard of the children.
Ionesco learns Rumanian whom he did not know and continues of brilliant secondary studies.

In 1929 Ionesco is student at the University of Bucharest. In the corridors of faculties of Bucharest, one could meet the future celebrities; Mircea Eliade, Emile Cioran, Sergiu Celibidache. It obtains a diploma he allowing to become French professor.

Since 1930, it starts a long collaboration with the review of criticism arts person "Zodiac".

In 1936 Eugene Ionesco Marie. It marries a coed in philosophy.

In 1938 the couple leaves for France. It works with a thesis on the Topics sin and death in French poetry according to Baudelaire. Problems financial and small trades. The couple returns to Romania in 1940 and returns in France, in Marseilles, in 1942.

In 1944 the couple settles again in Paris. Birth of their daughter Marie-France

In 1948 Mort of his/her father Eugene Ionesco is a corrector in a printing works. It binds friendship with André Breton, Luis Bunel, Adamov and Cioran.

In 1950 It is naturalized French.

In Lyon, it attends the intellectual and artistic avant-garde with which it develops its free spirit and its gift for the provocation.

Its plays:

"the professional singer bald person" is created with the Theatre of the Night birds receives only one reception cold but mark birth of a new theatre.

Then will follow: "the Lesson" with the Theatre of Pocket.
Traditional criticism expresses its hostility. The rooms remain empty. But one ring admirers start to be created: They greet this comic born absurdity where the strange one makes burst the daily framework.

"The Chairs" "Amédée or How to get rid some"
Resumption of the Chairs. Jean Anouilh writes a eulogistic article on first page of Barber, a daily newspaper which had never however applauded the parts of Ionesco
"Impromptu of Alma", "the Future is in Eggs",
"Rhinoceros", " Killer without pledges ",

Jean-Louis Barrault creates "Rhinoceros" in Odéon, it is the dedication for Eugene Ionesco.Then creation with the French Comedy of "Plays of Massacre"

"the Recluse", single novel of Eugene Ionesco.

It publishes each year of new parts and acquires finally glory international and official.

It enters indeed to the French Academy in 1970 then is named Officier of Legion of Honor in 1984.

In 1989 Eugene Ionesco is celebrated at the Night of Molières.
With Samuel Beckett, he wrote the largest parts of the absurd theatre, mixing comic and despair. Because if its parts make laugh, it is to release the man of his loneliness indépassable and ridiculous of its condition of human.

Eugene Ionesco dies in Paris on March 28, 1994

In spite of the death of Eugene Ionesco "Spectacle IONESCO" remains alive. At the maximum high degree one can feel the spirit and the message of the parts of Ionesco in one small theatre in the Latin Quarter Paris. The Theatre of Huchette was created in 1948 pennies direction of George Vitaly in order to give parts to it of Schéhadé, Kataiev, Bréal and Audiberti. In 1952 Marcel Plonk, the successor of Vitaly, made it possible to present to it Genêt, Lorca, Tourgueniev, Ionesco and Tardieu.

The Theatre of Huchette was the theatre of Eugene Ionesco. October 7, 1952 until April 26, 1953 one gave "the Professional singer bald person" and "the Lesson" first time together, one after the other. February 16, 1957 they were taken again two parts in the Theatre of Huchette (85 places). Since this recovery they were played without interruption. They will reach at the end of to 1987 them 10.000e representation. The parts begin almost each day with 19h30 " Professional singer bald person "and with 20h30" the Lesson ".
In 1979 the Theatre of Huchette with the two parts beats the world record of longevity "the Professional singer bald person" and "the Lesson" since more than 22 years. Record was held by Agatha Christie "the trap" 22 years).

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