ПОВРАТАК НА ПОЧЕТАК СТИВА ТЕШИЋА: АМЕРИКА И ПОСТОРВЕЛОВСКИ ДРУШТВЕНИ ПОРЕДАК
SQUARE ONE BY STEVE TESICH: AMERICA AND THE POST-ORWELLIAN SOCIAL ORDER

Summary/Abstract: Bearing witness to social, cultural, moral, and environmental metamorphoses that occurred in America in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, American–Serbian playwright and screenwriter Steve Tesich observed that these momentous changes, either by force of inertia or the power of habit, resulted in a moral and spiritual crisis, extending to three dimensions of the existence of modern man: personal, social and political. In this context, the paper analyzes the play Square One, which dramatizes Tesich’s vision of America as an anti–utopia predominated by a totalitarian atmosphere of tyrannical ultimatums about conversion, absolute faith in progress and collectivism, with art and culture being used by the regime as a tool intended for controlling people. The ideas of philosophers Jean Baudrillard and Bela Hamvas provide the theoretical framework for our criticism.

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