Books
Ian Charles Lepine's literary production spans over thirty books across all genres of fiction, including theatre, poetry, historical novels, and fantastic tales. ​
He has been published in the US, Mexico, Colombia, the U.K., Italy, and France, where he was awarded three international prizes.
In his dramatic works, Ian Charles Lepine develops a metaphysics of theatre that seeks to illuminate as well as obfuscate the conflictive and paradoxical relation between characters and actors, the author and himself, and theatre and life. His plays are absurd in nature but confront man with the void above which he explores the balancing act of civilisation.
Deeply influenced by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Pirandello, and Beckett his plays are comedies of manners with a postmodern twist.
His first play, The Paths of Formless Love, was a finalist in the 2017 International Shakespeare's New Contemporaries Prize (American Shakespeare Centre)
Ian Charles Lepine's prose works comprise five historical novels and as many short story anthologies. In his narrative writing, he explores the relationship between the past and the present, the self, and the other, and the various contradictions at the heart of man.
His historical novels engage in innovative ways relating to both form and content with the literary tradition of the centuries in which they are set, such as Rose of Darkness, which replicates Renaissance theatre prompt techniques, or L'Amour en Marbre, that seeks to reproduce newspaper articles from 19th- century Paris.
Ian Charles Lepine's poetry seeks to capture the paradoxes present in each moment of life, aiming to break open the instant to find the essence that comprises it. For the past five years, he has explored the sonnet form (in its English and Italian varieties) as well as other rhymed forms, as the ballad. He sees poetry as a psychological autobiography, capable of concentrating the infinite sensations of a life.
Other works by Lepine include genre defying projects such as Word to Form and La Voce del Tempo. These volumes feature collections of writing, in prose or verse, that work alongside other art forms such as sculpture. These two books are to be regarded as Gesamtkunstwerke that involves several artistic media.