IONESCO ȘI ARTAUD
IONESCO AND ARTAUD
Author(s): Darie DucanSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Language and Literature Studies, Romanian Literature, Philology
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Ionesco; Artaud; Melodrama; The Theatre of the Absurd; The Theater and its double; coincidence;
Summary/Abstract: The majority of the postbelical literary criticism has repeatedly imposed the idea that Antonin Artaud’s The theatre and its double (1938) anticipates the theoretical vision of Eugène Ionesco, developed by the latter in The Bald Prima Donna (1950) as well as in his following plays. This hereby study, starting from Ionesco’s About the Melodrama and The Insufficiency of the exoticism formula (Zodiac, March 1931), both recovered from the Romanian interwar press by the literary critic Gelu Ionescu; but also from one of Gelu Ionescu’s footnote (1991), which states that in March of 1931, the articles belonging to Artaud had not been yet published; tries to analyse to what extend we have to deal with a critical bias or with a coincidence, and if not, in reality, Ionesco actually anticipated Artaud.
Journal: Studii de Ştiinţă şi Cultură
- Issue Year: XVIII/2022
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 61-72
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Romanian