Word: ionesco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around. Taken together with his earlier books, Come Back, Dr. Caligari and Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, the 14 stories of City Life establish him as the master experimentalist of his genre. He is a writer who may well be changing the definition of a short story the way Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter have changed the definition of a play...
...bitter skits flow into one another, using actors as interchangeable parts, a cast of 17 playing 88 roles, stylized and depersonalized. They reach hallucinatory heights. Once, Ionesco simply puts two rooms onstage, furnishes them identically with a bed, a chair and a wait ing woman, and brings their men to them defying the curfew. "I had given up hope," each woman says, and from there the dialogues of loving, reassuring cliches go on in strict musical parallel, words and acts in either room echoing within moments in the other...
Shortly before his election to France's august Academic Franchise, Eugene Ionesco, playwright of the bizarre, opened a grab-bag entertainment called Inedits Ionesco on the Left Bank. The collection of sketches and fragments was favorably received. Still, several seats were left unsold; indeed, they were not for sale. Ionesco insisted on sprinkling the audience with human-size dummies of dogs, cats and jackasses...