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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA GRAECO-CATHOLICA VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 1 / 2012  
         
  Article:   VOICES OF SOLITUDE – ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE DRAMATIST AT EUGENE IONESCO / STIMMEN DER EINSAMKEIT - ZUR ROLLE DES DRAMATIKERS BEI EUGENE IONESCO.

Authors:  ALINA NOVEANU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Voices of Solitude – About the Role of the Dramatist at Eugene Ionesco. The meaning and the intention of the artistic act and the status of the work of art are the main focus of the following text on the French-Romanian author Eugene Ionesco. Over many debates as the London-controversy (1958) with Kenneth Tynan, Orson Welles and Philipp Toynbee, Ionesco tries to defend an anti-realistic position by pointing out that the truth of art relies on the act of expression itself and not on any political intention or social function of art. Against his opponents, the thesis Ionesco defends is that society can rely only on the solitude of the ones who are ready to think, to confront and to change the social patterns that have the tendency to become absurd (“true society is above the social”). Art represents a way to reveal the void of false communication and create the space for a solution, which, however, has always to be an individual one. The artist cannot give with his art a common answer to the (surprisingly?) common fears, hopes and dreams of individuals; he can only give an artistic expression to these great questions and problems. With this refuse of art as a medium for ideology, Ionesco hopes to save the ancient function of art as a ground for community. By raising questions, art can help restore the true community of individual thinkers (“again: to be human is not only a social function”), who are allowed to stay as separate entities and are not being dissolved in the anonymity of the not really communicating, but always networking modern society.

Keywords: intention of the artistic act, status of the work of art, London-controversy (1958), Kenneth Tynan, Orson Welles, Philipp Toynbee, anti-realistic position, expression, political intention, social function of art, void, false communication, common fears, hopes, dreams, individuals, ideology, community, society.

 
         
     
         
         
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