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Non d’Eugene Ionesco ou l’affirmation d’une littérature de l’authenticité
| Summary: | Non (Nu) is a volume of critical essays written by Ionesco in Romania in 1934. In this work, he makes his opinions known on literary criticism conveying humour, spontaneity, playfulness and theatricality. For him any point of view can be valid when writing a critical essay. Ionesco arranged Non in two parts: “Moi, Tudor Arghezi, Ion Barbu et Camil Petrescu” and “Faux itinéraire critique”. In the first part he lampoons two Romanian poets and a novelist as bland imitators of French literature while drawing portraits of writers and critics that border on caricature. In a paradoxical statement and using the technique of contradiction, the second part of Non is devoted to criticizing critics and criticism, and satirizing his own way of writing. His criticism is interspersed with literary subjects and diary passages that come to life in theatrical sketches whose protagonist is more often Ionesco himself. |
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| Subject: | Ionesco Criticism Non Critique Paradoxe Paradox Romania Roumanie |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | journal article |
| Access type: | Open |
| Associated institution: | Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses |
| Summary: | Non (Nu) is a volume of critical essays written by Ionesco in Romania in 1934. In this work, he makes his opinions known on literary criticism conveying humour, spontaneity, playfulness and theatricality. For him any point of view can be valid when writing a critical essay. Ionesco arranged Non in two parts: “Moi, Tudor Arghezi, Ion Barbu et Camil Petrescu” and “Faux itinéraire critique”. In the first part he lampoons two Romanian poets and a novelist as bland imitators of French literature while drawing portraits of writers and critics that border on caricature. In a paradoxical statement and using the technique of contradiction, the second part of Non is devoted to criticizing critics and criticism, and satirizing his own way of writing. His criticism is interspersed with literary subjects and diary passages that come to life in theatrical sketches whose protagonist is more often Ionesco himself. |
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