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Trois déclinaisons roumaines de l’absurde
Three romanian adaptations of the Absurd

Tristan Tzara, Benjamin Fondane and Eugène Ionesco

Author(s): Till R. Kuhnle
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: Literature;ideology; absurd; avant-gardism; existential thinking;antimanifesto; rebellion

Summary/Abstract: This article is to compare three Romanian authors writing in French who are associated to avant-gardism and the Absurd: Tristan Tzara, Eugène Ionesco and Benjamin Fondane. The latter critics the philosophical concepts of Spirit (Geist, Esprit) and Idea points out that the existentialist philosophy of the absurd also depends on these concepts. Therefore only the subversive avant-gardism in the tradition of Dada can define the Absurd as an almost existential experience against all ideology.

  • Issue Year: 1/2018
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 29-41
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: French