Laboratorium metanarracji w bestiarium świata. Dramaturgia Jurija Kławdijewa

Abstract

This article examines the actions and communication techniques in Yuri Klavdiev’s early plays that are included in the collection Sobiratel’ pul’ i dr. Ordalii (Moscow 2006). Numerous levels of the work are covered in the discussion, including the characters, presented world, composition and construction, which allows the unique verbal and nonverbal relations between the individual, the world and oneself to be shown, as well as the nature of the author’s dialogue with the reader/viewer. The young protagonists of Klavdiev’s dramas, who function in a post-Soviet reality deformed by evil and violence, attempt to organize chaos, give meaning to their existence, compensate for traumas, and express themselves by creating private “metanarratives” rooted in both high and mass culture. Unfortunately, in the world’s “bestiary”, it is aggression (leading to destruction and self-destruction) that proves to be the most effective catalyst for communication, cognition, self-realization, and self-identification.