Kobieta w sytuacji granicznej (wybrane motywy twórczości Jurija Kławdijewa)
A Woman in a Boundary Situation (Chosen Motives of the Work of Yury Klavdiev)

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author attempts to characterize the work of Yury Klavdiev in the context of trauma studies. For the analysis the author has used four pieces of work of the playwright showing the relation of a boundary situation with experiencing of boundaries of one’s own humanity: Let’s go, the Car is Waiting, Rain Outside the Wall, Anna and The Ruins. Confronted with fear, helplessness and direct sense of danger to life, Klavdiev’s heroines have to answer the question, who they are in this harsh reality. Masha and Juliya from Let’s go, the Car is Waiting reach the extremes of psychical and physical endurance, and then they see that violence is neither poetic, nor does it lead to internal independence. The shocking events at the family home of the heroine of the play Rain Outside the Wall forced her to use aggression as a means of drawing attention to unsaid tragedies of thousands of victims of sexual violence. The titular Anna takes a gun to her hand in order to overcome oppressive and masculinized world in which she lives. Mariya Razvalina (The Ruins) goes up against the social trauma of war, against harsh simplicity, without a place for reflection on human condition.

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