CONCEPTS OF WORLDVIEW AND PROBLEMATIC HERO IN THE CONTEXT OF GENETIC STRUCTURALISM: QUAY WEST BY BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS
OLUSUMSAL YAPISALCILIK BAĞLAMINDA “SORUNSAL KAHRAMAN” VE “DÜNYA GÖRÜSÜ” KAVRAMLARI:BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS’IN BATI RIHTIMI (QUAI OUEST)

Summary/Abstract: Lucien Goldmann, who determines the borders of genetic structuralism by combining his own principles and rules of literary sociology with the works of previous theoreticians, and shows the practices of different types of works, also demonstrates that his own method is also applicable to the analysis of theatre productions.To him, a work of art emerges in the mind as a thought, and until it reaches to the last level in which it is presented to the reader with its complete form, it reflects the historical, economic, social, and cultural necessities and needs of the society it belongs to. The role of the author or the artist in the process of formation of this product is to be the spokesman of his society. With his intellectual identity, the author or the artist, as an agent, forms and expresses the “worldview”, which is constituted by the “potential conscious” of the society. The present work makes use of the Goldmann‟s method of analysis and criticism by applying it to the analysis of the dramatic work. In this paper, Bernard-Marie Koltès‟ absurd theatre play Quay West is introduced by presenting the lives of people who belong to different social groups and are the slaves of the gradually growing capitalist economy and unhappiness. The concepts of problematic hero, and the characters, who are the representatives of this social condition and the writer‟s worldview, are also analyzed in this study.

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