In the Realm of Politics, Nonsense, and the Absurd : The Myth of Antigone in West and South Slavic Drama in the Mid-Twentieth Century
2018
Abstract
In the article we analyze some plays with the myth of Antigone in West - and South Slavic Drama in the Mid Twentieth Century. We analyse the function of the myth in these plays, we find a change in appearance: it is possible to recognise the line between the political plays with allegorical plots from the fifties and the metaphorical plays from the sixties when ancient motifs become metaphors of modern subjectivity.
The mythological texts link political allegory with the concretised metaphor of the postwar normality of the East European countries: they oscillate from historical presentation to poetic expression, in which symbolic themes are the metaphors for philosophical thoughts.
