Metateatralność w dramacie Jewgienija Wodołazkina Parodysta

Abstract

As the author of the article claims, the metatheatricality in Eugene Vodolazkin’s drama The Parodist is constituted by the multiplication of levels of presented reality and its specific modelling, exposing the “derivativness” and “fictionality”.The multi-layered reality is generated by various, usually perfidious, realizations of the concept of “theatre in theatre” (e.g. thanks to outright and allusive intertextuality, implicitly inscribed in the text of the drama); appearance of specific structural and compositional elements and the simultaneity resembling a film technique of parallel editing; breaking down the stage illusion and maximising the theatrum mundi concept; a play generated within a dramatic plot by the heroes themselves; and metaparody of artistic issues in the dramatic dialogue.