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DRAMATISTS > dramatist > Eugene Ionesco
An avant-garde man...
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An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression.
Source: A Talk about the Avant-Garde, lecture, Jun 1959, Helsinki.
-- Eugene Ionesco, (Nov 26 1912-1994), Romanian-French dramatist; His one-act antiplay La Cantatrice Chauve, 1949 (The Bald Soprano) inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques including parody and slapstick.