Published on June 10, 2024 at 10:03.
“If the author of The bald singer is known throughout the world, although he enjoys international notoriety for his regularly performed pieces, a whole section of his work is partially ignored”, writes Marie-Claude Hubert in the preface to the complete works of which she directed ‘editing. In this volume we will find, in addition to all of Ionesco’s theatrical plays, his precious autobiographical writings which reveal the writer’s intimate self. Marie-France Ionesco recalls that her father was wary of his reputation as a man of the theater: “When someone asks me the question “Why do you write plays?”, I always feel very embarrassed, I don’t know what to answer. . It sometimes seems to me that I started writing theater because I hated it,” he wrote in Notes and counternotes. Later, in A Man in Question, he declares: “I didn’t like the theater, or I thought I didn’t like it. Even now I am wary of it.”
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