Title Kavinės erdvės karnavališkumas: Eugène Ionesco Raganosiai ir Juozo Glinskio Amoralitetas /
Translation of Title The carnivality of the café space: Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros and Juozas Glinskis’ Amoralitetas.
Authors Ramanauskienė, Bernadeta
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Is Part of Acta humanitarica universitatis Saulensis: Kavinės fenomenas kultūroje.. Šiauliai : VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2012, t. 15, p. 227-235.. ISSN 1822-7309
Keywords [eng] carnivality ; cafe space ; Eugène Ionesco ; Juozas Glinskis ; transformation ; negativity of religion ; ritualism
Abstract [eng] The object of an article is the carnivality of the cafe space in the plays of Eugene Ionesco’s “Rhinoceroses” (1976) and Juozas Glinskis” “Amoralitetas” (2008). The modern absurd drama is studied by comparison. The article reveals one of the most important aspects of modern absurd drama, i.e. carnivality. The place of action is supposed as the space of characters’ intercourse and transformation. It enables mythic processes of the carnivality. In analysed plays the carnival philosophy is revealed through the freedom of characters communication: moral values or the sense of responsibility for the preservation of the unique individual features are ignored. The dramatic cafe space of both plays creates the festival, where the participants are grotesquely transformed: in Glinskis’ “Amoralitetas” the gods become parodies of the ancient and Christian gods, Lithuanian nation mutates genetically; the inhabitants of Ionesco’s “Rhinoceroses” turn into ungulate mammalia with the rough skin. In the dramas the atmosphere of a carnival is formed by the absence of space boundaries, the destruction of the sky, earth and catacombs (this destruction encourages the course of harlotry or epidemics of becoming rhinoceroses). Actions of cafe waiters have some ritualism inside and repeat the main carnival stages, such as dethronement or attachment to mythic contribution. The carnival atmosphere is formed by spaces of plays and characters, playing a part in them. It allows seeing the distinction of the authors in the view of modern drama.
Published Šiauliai : VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2012