For Ágota Kristóf, theatrical and novel communication are not as clearly different as we would expect given the difference between the two literary genres. The first plays, written in French-speaking Switzerland starting from the end of the 1970s, contain those motifs that would later build the imaginative system of the most famous novels. Violence, latent or manifest, dominates all sentimentality and outlines, in its precise contours of abuse of the body, what will be the constant controversy in all of the writer's activity in the theatre, in the novel, in poetry. In the features of violence we see a detached testimony of social relationships, that accumulation of frustrations that causes individual events to transform into episodes of a broader human story.
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Chapter Title
Il teatro di violenze domestiche di Ágota Kristóf
Authors
Riccardo Benedettini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0278-7.04
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Publication Year
2023
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Book Title
La violenza nel teatro contemporaneo
Book Subtitle
Lingue e linguaggi a confronto
Editors
Paola Bellomi, Carla Francellini, Maria Beatrice Lenzi, Ada Milani, Niccolò Scaffai
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Number of Pages
152
Publication Year
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0278-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0277-0
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0278-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0279-4
Series Title
Studi di letterature moderne e comparate
Series ISSN
2975-0377
Series E-ISSN
2975-0229