IONESCO' S ONIRIC THEATRE - A JOURNEY TO HIS ORIGINS
IONESCO' S ONIRIC THEATRE - A JOURNEY TO HIS ORIGINS

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse the Ionescian oniric theater. A genuinely infernal voyage between the land of the father and that of the mother, outside the sacred and within the profane, or vice-versa, takes place in Eugène Ionesco's last plays, particularly in L'Homme aux valises (1975) and Voyages chez les morts (1980), two plays which could be qualified as autobiographical and oniric, mythic and metaphysical. Ionesco's theatre involves the manifestation of his dream world, what he calls an independent universe, of the mysteries of being and identity, of loss and otherness. Theatre is a masking and unmasking of another world, a dreamed autobiography. It inhabits the realm of the eternal present moment, a place where forgotten archetypes can be discovered. Man is not simply a social animal, but an enduring essence.

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