THE LONELINESS OF ORPHEUS IN THE TWO LAST EUGÈNE IONESCO’S PLAYS
THE LONELINESS OF ORPHEUS IN THE TWO LAST EUGÈNE IONESCO’S PLAYS

Summary/Abstract: The two last Ionesco’s plays, Man with bags and Journeys to the Realm of the Dead, have a rich mythological substrate. The myth of Orpheus is present between the lines. Even if the name of the famous poet is not specified, there are many elements of this myth, presents in the two plays. The modern Orpheus, a man alone, is travelling in a labyrinthine hell inside, looking for his own identity and for his mother. The own identity is very important, because the knowledge of one’s self, which suppose loneliness, leads to the knowledge of the others and to the sense of his life. The quest of the mother is an attempt to escape to a feeling of guilty and in the same time, to make order in the personal world.

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