Ionescian

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1. Of or relating to Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994), a Romanian-French playwright.

   [...] of Ionescian stage imagery.

   1972, The Twentieth-Century Mind, page 448

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   [...] an Ionescian hero common to several plays makes an appeal, in a now-famous monologue, to all possible argumentations in order to defend himself.

   1989, Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences, page 25

   I propose to conclude this paper by examining Ionesco from a different angle, namely using some biographical information about his activity in Romania in the ‘30s and ‘40s and then staying true to the Ionescian spirit by denying that any of these readings are necessary, while maintaining all are possible.

   2013, Alex Drace-Francis, The Traditions of Invention: Romanian Ethnic and Social Stereotypes in Historical Context, Brill, page 209