Cris des cœurs by Jean-Victor Pellerin, as an exemple of hybrid play Cover Image

Cris des cœurs de Jean-Victor Pellerin, exemple d’une pièce hybride
Cris des cœurs by Jean-Victor Pellerin, as an exemple of hybrid play

Author(s): Tomasz Kaczmarek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej & Wydawnictwo Werset
Keywords: Jean-Victor Pellerin; hybrid; tableau; expressionism; character

Summary/Abstract: Cris des cœurs by Jean-Victor Pellerin consists of the three parts, each of them corresponds to a different genre: melodrama, tragedy and misterium. Rejecting the reality, the writer resignes also from the scene’s materiality what leads him as a consequence to the deconstruction of the space-time’s categories. Traditional drama’s division on act and scenes is replaced by the loose images (tableaux) where the dreamy visions mingle with reality. Puting the pressure on oniric dimension of a play, the playwright prepares the area for a break of characters who moving in a hostile and an unspecified world without the laws of physics, get going in quest for the lost identity. Breaking the unity of action and psychological consistency of a character, Pellerin presents the crisis of a temporary human being, moreover by using heterogenic forms, he shows this crisis in ist best.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 65-73
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French