Eugen Ionescu - dramaturgul căutărilor intermitente
Eugen Ionescu - The Playwright of the Intermittent Quest

Summary/Abstract: The work of Eugen Ionescu contains several autobiographical elements and oneiric symbols and it may represent an interesting case for a psychoanalytical exercise. The years of his youth were marked by identity oscillations between his father’s country and his adoptive country, by his terribilism and his willingly contestatory attitude, in an era in which prevailed the critical attitude of the youth towards the established literary canon. The fragments from his diary show the difficult road that led him to the theatre. Once there, he innovated, and the new theater of derision he experimented was a way to find his identity, although he approached it with nihilism and acidity.Eugen Ionescu remains the playwright of the “intermittent quest” and the plays he wrote after his exile in Paris represent his way of sharing obsessions and fears, of trying to reunite the past and the present. He always carried alienation and anguish with him, transferring them to the characters he created.

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