Prefigurarea absurdului în 1 din 36, de Felix Aderca
Foreshadowing of the Absurd in 1 of 36, by Felix Aderca

Summary/Abstract: Felix Aderca’s dramaturgy is less known to most readers. In Interwar Romanian Literature (1972), Ov. S. Crohmălniceanu recalls the writer’s preoccupations with the avant-garde theater, without giving details about any of the writer’s plays. In the criticism after 1989, the name of playwright Felix Aderca is found in The History of Romanian Literature (1991) by I. Negoiţescu, where the critic emphasizes Aderca’s contribution to the renewal of literature, and the Critical History of Romanian Literature. 5 centuries of literature (2008) by Nicolae Manolescu. He noticed Felix Aderca’s theater and says that 1 of 36 is a semi-absurd comedy. Starting from Nicolae Manolescu’s point of view, we intend in this paper to identify some elements that attest to the incipient absurd theater in the play 1 of 36 by Felix Aderca as well as those that, on the contrary, exclude it from this kind of theater.

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