EUGÈNE IONESCO. TRADIȚIE ȘI VIRULENȚĂ SPECTACULARĂ: INTERVIUL DIN PLAYBOY
EUGÈNE IONESCO. TRADITION AND SPECTACULAR VIRULENCE: THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEW
Author(s): Darie DucanSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Romanian Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Playboy; Ionescu, Ionesco; sexuality; realism; Christianity; ideology; hesychasm;
Summary/Abstract: At the height of the so-called “sexual revolution” of the mid-1970s, when leftist political ideology manipulated young people into denying their parents through excess and ostentation (in the French extension of May 1968), the rebellious Eugene Ionesco, author of the incendiary Nu (No) (1934) and the play La Cantatrice chauve (1950), surprises by publishing an unexpected and ignored interview in the French edition of Playboy magazine (March 1975, No. 16/8). In this interview with Claude Terrasse, Ionesco “seduces” through his theatrical persona against the mainstream.The political and paradoxical gesture is above all a theatrical one, and its unexpected implications and effects will be analysed in the present study in the organic perspective of their integration into his oeuvre.
Journal: Studii de Ştiinţă şi Cultură
- Issue Year: XIX/2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 17-30
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Romanian