Biblical Allusions in the Plays of Ivan Vyrypaev July and Genesis 2 Cover Image

Библейские реминисценции в пьесах Ивана Вырыпаева Июль и Бытие №2
Biblical Allusions in the Plays of Ivan Vyrypaev July and Genesis 2

Author(s): Elena Kurant
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Studies of Literature, Metaphysics, Russian Literature, Pragmatism, Biblical studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Ivan Vyrypaev; contemporary Russian drama; Bible in drama; The Postsecular Turn; „New Drama“ in Russia; The Semitic rhetoric; July; Genesis 2; Lives of the Saints; Job, Lot‘s Wife; menippea;

Summary/Abstract: The article makes an attempt to analyze the writing strategy of one of the leading representative of the contemporary literary process: the dramatist, actor, film and theater director Ivan Vyrypaev (based on his mono-drama July and drama Genesis 2). The text of the Bible has been part of literary discourses for centuries. It also appears in the works of Ivan Vyrypaev: as reminiscences and paraphrases, or as the principles of Semitic rhetoric in the plays (reflected in poetic parallelism, para-taxis, etc.). This method is not only a sign of the author’s formal researches, but also imposes the principles of ‘involved reading’ on the audience. This kind of subjective and even subversive reading of the Bible seems to be part of contemporary culture, which seeks to re-explore the metaphysics of the modern world through intuitive exploration of religious experience. In the works of Vyrypaev, the Bible is a cultural concept deeply rooted in the realities of everyday life. Thus, Vyrypaev plays a game with tradition, which oscillates between the categories of privacy and versatility in the attempts to rediscover humanity in the modern world.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 219-230
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian