Eastern Drama of the Absurd in the Twilight of the Soviet Bloc

Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz

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Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Publisher:: Jagiellonian University Press
Online publication date:: December 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9788323374725

Subjects:: Art: General Interest, Art, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, European Theatre

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Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz draws differences between Western and Eastern European absurdism, points out similarities and adjacencies, and emphasises the function fulfilled by the theatre of the absurd in Eastern Europe: the representation of the drama of a man deprived of freedom. The author of this important book shows absurdity in the dramas of the 1980s 'at the end of the Soviet bloc' as the only possibility of dramatic-theatrical embodiment of realism, as a metaphor for reality.

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Eastern Drama of the Absurd in the Twilight of the Soviet Bloc

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Dedication
pp 5-6

Contents
pp 7-8

Part I - The Theatre of the Absurd in the East: In between the Existential Void and the Comedy of Consciousness
pp 9-10

1 - The meaning of absurd. Between ontology and genology
pp 11-20

2 - The absurd in the East and the West. Similarities and close links
pp 21-28

3 - Common experience: Mrożek, Havel, Örkeny… Chekhov
pp 29-36

Part II - 1980s: The Only Way out Dilemma
pp 37-38

1 - Russian drama: Suicidal escape from the judgment of existence
pp 39-68

2 - Czech drama: A parody of the cleansing sacrifice
pp 69-90

3 - Polish drama: An escape into madness
pp 91-130

4 - Hungarian drama: Alcohol oblivion
pp 131-156

Part III - Removed from Existence. An Existential Crisis in Dramatic Form
pp 157-170

Bibliography
pp 171-176

Index
pp 177-180

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