Trois déclinaisons roumaines de l’absurde Tristan Tzara, Benjamin Fondane et Eugène Ionesco

This article is to compare three Romanian authors writing in French who are associated to avant-gardism and the Absurd: Tristan Tzara, Eugène Ionesco and Benjamin Fondane. The latter critics the philosophical concepts of Spirit (Geist, Esprit) and Idea points out that the existentialist philosophy of the absurd also depends on these concepts. Therefore only the subversive avant-gardism in the tradition of Dada can define the Absurd as an almost existential experience against all ideology.