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THE DRAMATURGY OF PARADOX: THE DRAMAS OF TADEUSZ RÓZEWICZ AND JON FOSSE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE AESTHETICS OF INTIMACY

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Lech M.

Ruch Literacki

2008

vol. 49

issue 3(288)

339-352

The article addresses the question of the evolution of the aesthetics of intimacy in contemporary drama. The idea of intimate drama had its origins in German naturalism and reached its mature embodiment in the 'subjective' drama of the Scandinavian modernists. Contemporary drama, too, has to grapple with the problem of finding a dramatic expression to intrasubjectivity. In the later 20th century the general tendency to revive the theatre of the voice and various attempts to restore the oral dimension of the dramatic performance created fresh incentives to break out of the framework of 'subjective' drama. The process of drama opening up to the outside world and clearing the ranks of dramatis personae of the old cast of alienated characters, imprisoned in their separate intrasubjective worlds, makes the problem of intimacy again extremely important. On the evidence of an assortment of modern as well as most recent texts it can be tackled in quite diverse ways. This article examines the handling of intimacy in a some selected texts of Tadeusz Rózewicz and Jon Fosse. What links the Polish and the Norwegian author is the fact that for either the writing of dramas is rooted in poetry. Likewise, either of them is keenly interested in ways of expressing tensions between the inner and the outer world. Analyzed side by side, the texts of the two writers usually reveal clear differences of approach to the problem of the intimate drama and the related issues of what has been called here the dramaturgy of paradox and the dramaturgy of the state in-between. At some points, however, the two approaches are remarkably similar.

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THE DRAMATURGY OF PARADOX: THE DRAMAS OF TADEUSZ RÓZEWICZ AND JON FOSSE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE AESTHETICS OF INTIMACY