Visages de l’ironie dans Les Chaises d’Eugène Ionesco
Faces of irony in The Chairs of Eugène Ionesco

Author(s): Maria-Luisa Ţuculeanu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Romanian Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: contradiction; irony; object; chair; society; interpretation;
Summary/Abstract: The concept of irony is the subject of the pages that follow. This very term is often used to suggest the contradiction between what is said and what is done, so that the distance regarding the exterior reality can be easily identified in various contexts. Having this in view, Eugène Ionesco’s work highlights the identitarian dualism through the motif of the double, such as « black » and « white », « colour » and « noncolour », keywords for his drawings and lithographies on the whole. Besides, contradictions also refer to the relation between art and society, which may be defined in terms of a denial. With reference to this aspect, the artistic work is an object, a common one, refusing the existence of some social constraints. What’s more, the language has to do with the irony, consisting of repetitions, interruptions etc. However, our final concern is with visual arts as against theatre - two domains of activity which have significant elements in common - by analyzing the play The Chairs, as well as the lithography with the same title, from the perspective of the irony.

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