Przemoc słowna jako forma kontaktu w dramatach Bernarda-Marii Koltèsa

Abstract

The plays of Bernard-Marie Koltès centre on difficult family relations, violence, seduction, the need to exploit other people and rejection of values, which makes them an excellent material for a study of linguistic devices used to express verbal violence. Koltès depicts people who are embroiled in internal conflicts and fruitless attempts to form relationships with other people, which turn into verbal or even physical violence. The author creates and develops his characters directly through language. The language he uses reflects the social awkwardness of his characters, failure and absence. This article demonstrates how the characters of Koltès's plays form relationships through destructive contlicts, and analyses the ways in which a trial of strength is expressed by language.