THE SORESCIAN DRAMA OR ASSUMING REBELLIOUSNESS AGAINST CANONIZED MODELS
THE SORESCIAN DRAMA OR ASSUMING REBELLIOUSNESS AGAINST CANONIZED MODELS

Summary/Abstract: Marin Sorescu's accomplishments as a playwright are spectacular, taking his contemporaries by surprise, once more. Of striking novelty, his plays have benefitted from an immediate success, being translated and played on numerous stages worldwide. Beyond assimilating expressionist principles and procedures, the author influences decisively the laws and conventions of naturalist drama by introducing several innovative elements, thus imposing a serious issue and treating it in a comic register. The plays express essential problems for the époque and human beings, in general. He is devoted to finding the truth about human being and about life. The confrontation between the hero and his existence stages an itinerary of challenges and suffering. Parables of existence, the sorescian texts denounce, among other aspects, restraints of any sort.

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