There would appear to be able to be parody here, in addition to one might count on that Ionesco—in a line of ancestry from Nietzsche to help poststructuralist thought—would not only refuse the older metaphysics although laugh as well from the ridiculousness of any kind of nostalgia for it, like for the originary time of a lively beauty gifted with Platonic truth. As well as the Orator who is found dressed as “a normal painter or poet with the nineteenth century” (154) can be, with his histrionic way and even conceited air, absolutely not really Lamartine, who else questions “Eternité, néant, passé, sombre abîme” (“Eternity, nothingness, past—dark abyss”) to return often the sublime raptures they possess stolen; nor is they remotely the figure involving Keats with his Grecian urn, teasing us out there of consideration in equating beauty and even truth. Exactly what we have instead, in Amédée or Ways to get Rid of It, is often the spellbinding beauty of that which, when they miss to close the lids, reflects from the eyes, which often don't have aged—“Great green eyes. Glowing like beacons”—of the incurably growing corpse. “We could easily get along without the form of magnificence, ” states Madeleine, the sour plus poisonous partner, “it requires up too much area. ” Yet Amédée can be fascinated by means of the transfiguring growth of its ineluctable presence, which might have come from the abyss connected with what is lost, lost, dropped. “He's growing. It's quite organic. He's branching out. ”3 But if will be certainly anything lovely here, that seems to come—if not necessarily from the Romantic period or one of typically the more memorable futurist photographs, Boccioni's The Body Ascending (Amédée's family name is definitely Buccinioni)—from another poetic origin: “That corpse you rooted last year in your garden, / Has it begun for you to sprout? ” It's as though Ionesco have been picking up, virtually, Big t. S. Eliot's problem within The Waste Land: “Will it bloom this yr? ”4 If this certainly not only plants, or perhaps balloons, but flies away, having Amédée together with it, the particular oracle of Keats's urn—all you know on the planet and all you need to know—seems a far cry from the entertaining mordancy of this transcendence, as well as what in The Bar stools, even if the Orator had voiced, will have radiated upon posterity, or else from the eye of the corpse, through the light from the Ancient Man's mind (157).
But the truth is of which, with regard to Ionesco, the Absurd is usually predicated on “the storage of a memory space of a memory” connected with an actual pastoral, elegance and truth inside nature, if not quite nevertheless in art. Or consequently this appears in “Why Do I Write? A Summing Right up, ” where he or she subpoena up his years as a child in the Mill of typically the Chapelle-Anthenaise, some sort of farm within St-Jean-sur-Mayenne, “the nation, the bar, the fireside. ”5 Whatever it was right now there he didn't know, such as priest's questions at their first religion, it has been presently there, too, that he or she was “conscious of appearing alive. … I were living, ” he or she claims, “in happiness, joy, realizing in some way that each moment has been fullness without knowing typically the word bounties. I lived in a good kind of dazzlement. ” Whatever in that case happened to impair this specific lively time, the dazzle continues in memory, because some thing various other than fool's silver: “the world was initially gorgeous, and I was aware of it, everything was clean and pure. Newbury repeat: it is to locate this attractiveness again, unchanged in the mud”—which, as a site of the particular Stupid, he shares having Beckett—“that I write literary functions. All my publications, all my has are usually a call, the expression of a nostalgia, the visit a treasure buried within the sea, lost in the great loss connected with history” (6).