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Light Between the Shadows: A Conversation with Eugene Ionesco by Barbara Kraft is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Light Between the Shadows: A Conversation with Eugene Ionesco by Barbara Kraft Today more than ever, the sentiments expressed by Ionesco in Barbara Kraft’s ‘Conversation’ with him, are as important, if not more so, than when he spoke to her many years ago. As he said to Kraft, “We know very well that Western humanism is bankrupt. We also know very well that the leaders of the Eastern countries no longer believe in Marxism. Absolute cynicism and a great biological vitality are all that remain of the East’s revolutionary faith and all that keeps its leaders in power — active in the struggle for power and world supremacy.... Life has become, then, a deadly combat without scruple, since all ideologies and moralities have vanished — a combat for the conquest of the planet and its material riches.” For Ionesco politics lie; art, true art, cannot lie. “Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.” Staged all over the world during the 1960s and 1970s, Ionesco’s plays were once among the most performed works in the theatrical
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Barbara Kraft
- Publisher
- Two Birds Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction