I don’t know how–the text began imperceptibly to change before my eyes. But then, as Ionesco would later write, “A strange phenomenon took place. Smith, was her eminently methodical procedure in her quest for truth.
Smith was a clerk, that they had a servant, Mary, English, like themselves. Smith informed her husband that they had several children, that they lived in the vicinity of London, that their name was Smith, that Mr. Rereading them attentively, he learned not English but some astonishing truths–that, for example, there are seven days in the week, something he already knew that the floor is down, the ceiling up, things he already knew as well, perhaps, but that he had never seriously thought about or had forgotten, and that seemed to him, suddenly, as stupefying as they were indisputably true.Īs the lessons became more complex, two characters were introduced, Mr. Having decided at the age of 40 that he ought to learn English, Ionesco acquired an English text and set to work, conscientiously copying whole sentences from his primer for the purpose of memorizing them. Ionesco did not write his first play until 1950. Ionesco and his family lived in Marseilles during World War II, then settled in Paris after its liberation in 1944. He and Rodica had one daughter for whom he wrote several unconventional children’s stories. He studied French Literature at the University of Bucharest from 1928 to 1933. Born in Slatina, Romania on November 13, 1909, Eugène Ionesco grew up in France, but returned to Romania with his father after his parents divorced in 1925.
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