MATEI VISNIEC AND THE PARADOXES OF THEATRICAL IMAGINARY
MATEI VISNIEC AND THE PARADOXES OF THEATRICAL IMAGINARY

Summary/Abstract: The study centers on some basic paradoxes that underlie the drama texts of a wellknown author of Romanian origin, Matei Visniec, such as the coexistence of the poetic and the parodic discourse. The dramatic work of Visniec is also seen as an ongoing textual performance, very much aware of its historical and ideological context. Thus, the theatrical process of his writing for the stage transforms the prior modernist absurd and the empty loquacity of inter texts and of utopian theatre fantasies into a much more immediate drama, which is both acutely political and full of a pervasive subjectivity. The study centers on some basic paradoxes that underlie the drama texts of a wellknown author of Romanian origin, Matei Visniec, such as the coexistence of the poetic and the parodic discourse. The dramatic work of Visniec is also seen as an ongoing textual performance, very much aware of its historical and ideological context. Thus, the theatrical process of his writing for the stage transforms the prior modernist absurd and the empty loquacity of inter texts and of utopian theatre fantasies into a much more immediate drama, which is both acutely political and full of a pervasive subjectivity.

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