Comedy as an Aesthetic Response to Social Challenges: Larry Thompson: A Tragedy of a Youth by Dušan Kovačević – an Example of the Serbian Postmodern Black Comedy Cover Image

Комедија као естетски одговор на друштвене изазове: Лари Томпсон, трагедија једне младости – пример српске постмодерне црне комедије
Comedy as an Aesthetic Response to Social Challenges: Larry Thompson: A Tragedy of a Youth by Dušan Kovačević – an Example of the Serbian Postmodern Black Comedy

Author(s): Marina Milivojević-Mađarev
Subject(s): Serbian Literature
Published by: Институт за књижевност и уметност
Keywords: comedy;black humor;Dušan Kovačević;absurd;theater;postmodernism

Summary/Abstract: By examining the current theater repertoires in Serbia, the author has reached the conclusion that comedy is the most vital genre in the whole corpus of play-writing in Serbian. The comedies of Sterija, Nušić, Aleksandar Popović and DušanKovačević are continually included in the Serbian theaters’ repertoires. The paper asks the questions why comedy is our most vital genre, what are the characteristics of the plays written by the last of the abovementioned Serbian comedy playwrights,and what is the connection between satire, black comedy and absurd in the Serbian contemporary comedy represented by Dušan Kovačević.

  • Issue Year: 51/2019
  • Issue No: 167
  • Page Range: 103-120
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian