Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco was born in 1912 to a French mother and a Romanian father. He spent most of his childhood in France, where he claimed to have had a singularly transformational experience. As Deborah B. Gaensbauer describes in Eugene Ionesco Revisited, the young boy was in a small French town, walking in the sunlight under a blue sky, when he experienced a sudden luminosity. He felt a sensation of floating off the ground and great peace within himself. When he returned to the ground, he...
