Un nume nou în dramaturgia româneascǎ
A New Name in the Romanian Dramaturgy

A New Name in the Romanian Dramaturgy

Summary/Abstract: This study centers on what a man, who was unknown by his contemporaries as writer, wrote for the stage. I. D. Vulcănescu was a mathematician, yoga practioner, philosopher and anticommunist. Not only his intellectual training, but also experiencing life and detention in the socialist society, brought him towards theatre.Known since ΄38 as a young promissing intellectual meant for a brilliant career, doctor in mathematics, professor, clerk in the Finance Department, partizan, yoghin, Ion D. Vulcănescu witnesses the abrupt changes 1944 meant. He was amog those who oposed the recently installed power, risking their career, freedom and life.All three presented plays are written by someone who knew the worse in the communist society: jail, material shortcoming, outcasting. The official state ideology, whose essence is the hypocrite care towards people, is ridiculed and attacked. The author shows a good knowledge of both the man that suddenly finds himself under new, unnatural laws, and of the one who persecutes as well. Characters are subtile, yet vividly portrayed. Their way of talking is colourful and particular. I. D. Vulcănescu proves to know how to built a scene, to essentialise, to show the wrongness of logic, to characterise, to bring the confrontation of ideas into life.

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