Quotations about Ionesco

"If life ist absurd for Eugène Ionesco, it is also alluring. His capacity for delight in the details of human existence struggles with his conviction of its futility: it lends depth and verve to his despair." (Richard Eder, The New York Times)

"Startling and often brilliant. The lack of spiritual content in our civilization has been the major outcry of European Drama since Ibsen. Ionesco has carried this idea to the climatic point of savage caricature." (Harold Clurman)

"There is a terrifying, almost suffocating logic about the work of Ionesco. Life, he says, is a grotesque practical joke constantly pulling away chairs from under (human) dignity and reason. Nothing is sane, reality is a hall of distorting mirrors reflecting the grimness of our own pretensions." (Milton Shulman, The Evening Standard)