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n. - French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994).

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  • In those days, a dense and deadly politeness ruled British society that was satirized in Ionesco's Bald Soprano, and ignored in this Granada TV drama.
  • I shall be too late!) to the clock in Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano that strikes now 17, now seven, now three, now not at all.
  • I learned about Ionesco and the Theater of the Absurd.
  • I'm thinking of Eugene Ionesco, the postmodern playwright.
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