Ellipse et rupture dans les mémoires d’ Eugène Ionesco
Ellipsis and Rupture in Eugene Ionesco's Memoirs

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the results of a study on the use of the elliptical construction in Eugene Ionesco's memoirs, based on a corpus consisting of 35 discourses extracted from the volumes "Présent passé. Passé présent, Idées" / Gallimard, 1976 and "La quête intermittente", NRF, Gallimard, 1987. The author notices the frequent presence of ellipsis of different types and different functions in Ionesco's writings, while emphasising the great value gained by rhetoric ellipsis in this context. This type of ellipsis - through the break that it introduces into the inner monologue of the author of the journal - becomes an effective means of creating percussive formulas that cause freeze-frame effects on certain images, ideas or feelings that constantly recur in the mind of the great playwright. In this way, the ellipsis draws the reader's attention onto the author's intense feelings, especially the negative ones (deception, pain, fear, helpless anger in the face of evil), all sprung from a deep anxiety.

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