MENTAL DISTORTIONS IN WOYZECK BY GEORG BÜCHNER AND THE VISIT OF THE OLD LADY BY FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT
MENTAL DISTORTIONS IN WOYZECK BY GEORG BÜCHNER AND THE VISIT OF THE OLD LADY BY FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT

Summary/Abstract: The present study focuses on mental or psychological distortions that appear in two texts, Woyzeck by Georg Büchner and The Visit of the Old Lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. We argue that these depict the alienation of characters, alienation which can be traced as a manifestation of the grotesque, juxtaposed with the absurd. If Büchner‘s character incorporates bestiary elements, Dürrenmatt chooses the grotesque to represent the paradox in his works, both of them describing in fact a defragmentation of the sense.

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