Ionescu between France and Romania

This year will mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Eugène Ionesco, the French-Romanian writer of absurd theatre. The daily Cotidianul comments on the insistance of Ionescu's daughter Marie-France Ionesco that Ionesco is French, but no bit Romanian: "It's true that Eugène Ionesco detested his father, because he was violent and uncouth. Nevertheless his father did all he could to allow his son to finish school and attend a Romanian university so that the young Ionescu could become a French teacher. It seems absurd that his daughter must be reminded that Eugène Ionesco also published in Romanian. And it also seems absurd to have to remind Mrs Ionesco that her father returned to France in 1938 as a Romanian scholarship student, and several years later as a Romanian citizen he served as cultural attaché for the government of Antonesco [Romanian military dictator] in Vichy."

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