Fait divers ou avatar de l’histoire du fils prodigue : Niespodzianka de Rostworowski et Le Malentendu de Camus
Chronicles or Avatar of the Story of the Prodigal Son: Niespodzianka by Rostworowski and Le Malentendu by Camus

Summary/Abstract: The current article – focused on two plays about the killing of a son by his family – has a double objective: firstly, it questions the probable source of a folkloric story of the prodigal son, and secondly, it places side by side theater plays based on a legendary theme. After presenting the playwrights, Karol Hubert Rostworowski and Albert Camus, as well as the terminological propositions of Eric Durnez, the article analyses the convergences and divergences that we find in using the subjects from chronicles quasi mythical.

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