Eugen Ionescu şi literatura absurdului. Imposibilitatea circumscrierii într-un şablon
Eugen Ionescu and the Literature of the Absurd. The Impossibility of Circumscription in a Template

Summary/Abstract: Is Eugene Ionescu or not the creator of “the theatre of the absurd”? What is his position in this innovative literary movement or, more precisely, what is the role he plays in creating this formula? The fact is that “the theatre of the absurd” represents a syntagm that consecrates him, on the one side, but also “leads to some sort of labelling of this writer”, to the detriment of understanding the essence of his work, on the other side. Isn’t Eugene Ionescu, by any chance, a visionary spirit for whom the right formula has not been discovered yet? In this context, isn’t it exactly the impossibility of circumscribing Eugene Ionescu’s work to a pattern, (except through a “trendy” word, as the playwright put it himself), the one leading to new critical approaches? It is obvious that the formula suggested by Martin Esslin is in a certain cultural context, when there wasn’t a movement or an artistic program to define the new literary phenomenon. However, the signifier doesn’t fully “cover” the signified, that is why further research is required.

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