Lui grappling with pain in Téo Spychalski’s adaptation  of Hunger Cover Image

Lui aux prises avec la douleur dans l’adaptation de La Faim selon Téo Spychalski
Lui grappling with pain in Téo Spychalski’s adaptation of Hunger

Author(s): Renata Jakubczuk
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Hamsun; Spychalski; hunger; pain;

Summary/Abstract: This article intends to confront the literary and stage functioning of Lui, the protagonist of the Knut Hamsun’s novel Hunger (1890) and of the play of the same name created by Téo Spychalski within the theatre company, Groupe de la Veillée, in Montreal, in 1996. Using the terminological concepts developed by David Le Breton, professor of sociology at the University of Strasbourg, I explore various aspects of the notion of pain present in the novel and its stage adaptation. What is particularly interesting for me in both texts is the influence of pain on the existence of a human being, on the life of an individual.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 161-175
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French
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