Angelic and Crepuscular in Alexandru Sever’s Drama Cover Image

Angelic and Crepuscular in Alexandru Sever’s Drama
Angelic and Crepuscular in Alexandru Sever’s Drama

Author(s): Elena Iancu
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Recent History (1900 till today), Romanian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Casa Cărții de Știință
Keywords: drifting world; metamorphosis; intertextuality; drama;

Summary/Abstract: The illustration of a world, apparently drifting, the (de)mystification of the transcendent and of the act of creation, as idea and textual strategy, seem to Alexandru Sever (1921-2010) a means for another beginning. The impossibility of action in Înger bătrîn/ The Old Angel (1977) and the pact-making in Îngerul slut/ The Miscreated Angel (1982), imply metamorphosis in essence, supported by the dialogue with the great texts of the world, by intertextuality (the biblical text, Shakespeare's texts -Hamlet -Yorick, texts written by Göethe, Beckett, Marlowe, Dostoevsky, J. P. Sartre, Mikhail Bulgakov and others). The projection of Auschwitz, as a Siberia of the spirit, and that of Faustianism, result in a detailed analysis of the human, both as individuality and as community, in an attempt to illustrate the (in)intelligible inaction, death involving catharsis in the mundane and the theatre alike.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 01+02
  • Page Range: 177-187
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English