Authors’ names:
Svetlana N. Averkina, Ilya A. Bekin – Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Abstract:
The article explores the reception of the traditions of European theater in the work of Lucas Linder, a modern Swiss writer and the author of 17 plays, two novels, and several collections of poetry. The relevance of the research is related to the problem of overcoming postmodern aesthetics among a new generation of intellectual writers brought up on a deep knowledge of world culture and its humanistic foundations. The paper proves that for the artistic world of Linder, the most significant are the dramatic works of educational drama (G. E. Lessing), pre-romantics and romantics (Fr. Schiller, H. Kleist), and of the literature of the Biedermeier era (Fr. Grillparzer, J. Gotthelf, G. Keller). N. V. Gogol played an important role in the formation of Linder as a playwright. The famous production of the play “The Inspector” at the Vienna “Burgtheater” brought fame to the young Swiss writer. In his work, the reception of the 20th century culture is connected, first of all, with the name of B. Brecht, whose theory of “epic theater” played a major role in shaping the concept of building a critical distance between real and depicted reality. Linder’s theatrical consciousness was also formed under the implicit influence of representatives of the “theater of paradox,” philosophers and existentialist writers. The Swiss classic Fr. Dürrenmatt, known as Linder’s main master, is not given much attention here, since the subject is extensively dealt with elsewhere. It is concluded that the style of the Swiss playwright is primarily defined by the realistic and Freudian traditions as well as the aesthetics of political cabaret and the culture of performances in the genre of the “spoken word.” The main research methods are comparative and cultural-historical. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the authors introduce Russian literary scholars to a young promising writer who represents the new literary generation of Switzerland and, more broadly, modern Europe.
| Section | ARTISTIC TEXT AT THE INTERSECTION OF CULTURES |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/ lunn2024-67-3-101-115 |
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| Key words | Lukas Linder; traditions of the European theater; reception; the eccentric hero; intertextuality; intellectual literature |