Eugène Ionesco
Romanian-French · 1909–1994
Romanian-French playwright and leading figure of the Theatre of the Absurd, whose surreal, darkly comic plays exposed the emptiness of bourgeois language and conformity.
Wikipedia ↗“A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.”
English
Rhinoceros (Act II) ↗ (1959)
“Les idéologies nous séparent. Les rêves et les angoisses nous rassemblent.”
Français
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
Fragments of a Journal ↗ (1967)