EUGḔNE IONESCO’S INTELLECT BETWEEN MADNESS AND GENIALITY. AN ANALYTIC VIEW OF THE REFLECTION OF HIS GENIUS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
EUGḔNE IONESCO’S INTELLECT BETWEEN MADNESS AND GENIALITY. AN ANALYTIC VIEW OF THE REFLECTION OF HIS GENIUS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to offer a detailed view of the key role of Eugène Ionesco’s genius in the ordinary world. I am interested in discussing the way in which his genius can be reflected globally in his works, notably as it is imagined in the NU volume which was written during the interwar period. I am equally interested in observing the manner in which this contemporary writer manages to express the idea of the reflection of his genius in his Romanian masterpiece. Moreover, I will consider talking about his genius as a result of the impossibility of understanding the social condition of the ordinary being. Also, it is capital to note that the Franco-Romanian writer Eugène Ionesco has an overwhelming desire to transgress the common boundaries against whom human beings must confront. In order to offer a consistent critical view of the concept aforementioned, I will consider using the technique of close reading the text of the mentioned essay volume, focusing on the way in which manner is useful to convey the idea of the absurd. The creative use of language and the exploitation of absurd and contradictory situations, in general, will be regarded as a mean to make visible the new and revolutionary way in which theatre came to be understood by this playwright.

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