Lecture on Eugen lonescu, by Dr. Laura Pavel

March 28, 2023

10:30–11:30 a.m.

Durham Hall 207 / Online (https://asu.zoom.us/j/2918006010)

Eugen lonescu

In 2023, Romania celebrates 30 years since joining the Institution of Francophone, and this anniversary highlights the value and diversity of Romania's contribution within the Francophonie, as well as the actions taken to promote Francophone and its values. And Eugen lonescu is one of them.

If we move beyond the verdict regarding the absurd of lonesco's plays, how else can we interpret this theater? Melodramatic, but also parodic. tragic. but also comical at the same time, mixing the dreamlike fantastic, the miraculous surreal, the gothic and the sublime.

Keynote: Laura Pavel

Literary essayist and a dramatic theory scholar, professor at the Faculty of Theatre and Film of the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, where she teaches theatre history and theory, the anthropology of performance and interdisciplinary cultural analvsis. She is the author of "Dumitru Tsepeneag and the Canon of Alternative Literature," translated by Alistair lan Blyth (Dalkey Archve Press, 2011), lonesco. "L'Antimondo di uno scettico," translated into Italian by Maria Luisa Lombardo (Rome, Aracne Editrice, 2016) and "Personaje ale teoriei, finte ale fictiunii/ Characters of Theory, Beings of Fiction" (2021; The "Tudor Vianu" Award of the National Museum of Romanian Literature).