(Sub-Saharan) Paths of PraxisSupport

Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco · Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994) · 1909–1994

Appears in 14 videos · 14 passages.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Ionesco mainly to place the theatre of the absurd. He first links him with Adamov, in avant-garde theatre and then in the absurd12, and he also cites him with Beckett; he makes the three of them a triad: Ionesco, Beckett, Adamov3. He presents him as the comic version of this theatre4. Several times between 2015 and 2017, he quotes a line from The Bald Soprano: "Take a circle, caress it, and it will turn vicious"5. In 2022, he takes from the same play the figure of the fireman who asks people to promise not to listen, and he turns it into an image of Bellarmine6. In 2024, he cites The Lesson and its words that flutter about and no longer fall into the ears of the deaf, which he describes as tombs of linguistic cultures7. Ionesco also serves him as a reference point for placing Adamov, to whom he devotes a session.

  1. 1Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 2/28 Dec 2015 · 38:32
  2. 2#11 • Retour aux logiques du sujet21 Jun 2020 · 1:09:58
  3. 3Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 16:46
  4. 4Cynisme de l'extrême centre ou héroïsme épistémique ? La dialectique du milieu • Dominique Pagani20 May 2021 · 21:35
  5. 5#1.8 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?28 Jan 2016 · 3:34
  6. 6La panzer-philosophie contre le cogito : néo-fascisme ou idéologie de la nature. Heidegger/Descartes5 Mar 2022 · 48:10
  7. 7L'essence du mal - Innocence de la nature, horreur du naturalisme !17 Dec 2024 · 0:45

Summary produced automatically from 14 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Portrait: IonescoWho is this?

Eugène Ionesco (; French:; born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian: ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano, which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd. He wrote a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. […]

Read the article on Wikipedia

Text: Wikipédia, CC BY-SA 4.0, excerpt · Portrait: Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0

Search any author, concept or word across all of Dominique Pagani's videos and writings