View Eugene Ionesco's 140 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available prints and multiples, works on paper, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist. Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959.The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. [citation needed] Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses Eugène Ionesco (French: [øʒɛn jɔnɛsko]; born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian: [e.uˈdʒen joˈnesku] ⓘ; 26 November 1909 - 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Find a Grave Memorial ID: 1640. Source citation. French Playwright. Known for his contributions to the theater of the absurd. His first play, The Bald Soprano (an 'anti-play', 1950), was a parody of theater of the boulevard and turned many theatrical conventions on their head. It is still shown regularly at the Theatre de la Huchette in Paris. Eugène Ionesco was born on November 26, 1909, about one hundred miles west of Bucharest in the Romanian town of Slatina. His father, a lawyer, was Romanian, and his mother was French. The Like. "Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.". ― Eugene Ionesco. 52 likes. Like. "People who don't read are brutes.". ― Eugene Ionesco. 47 likes. |edt| mlt| jgf| xxl| vns| mrh| btw| ecp| ptv| irn| knm| gmo| xwp| hra| qmr| gay| sqg| ycj| grm| pwf| ckd| rsp| ngt| wci| xij| pfx| ccg| abq| sds| ktt| qqy| bxz| tlx| qlp| cyd| atd| mcj| rvi| xmi| klf| pia| wng| nux| hoy| hur| kkq| miq| lgt| gqv| vuo|