Écho des études romanes 2008, 4(2):53-66 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2008.020
August Strindberg et le théâtre français après 1945French
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La vastità e la rilevanza incontestabile dell'opera di August Strindberg non ebbe subito una grande risonanza in Francia. Anche se i suoi primi drammi, che l'avevano portato al naturalismo, avevano conosciuto una certa notorietà agli inizi del secolo passato, nessuno si ricordava, tranne Artaud, del suo teatro che nacque in seguito ad una profonda crisi che egli stesso descrisse come Inferno. Questa seconda fase della produzione drammaturgica dello scrittore svedese, segnata dall'angoscia e dalle allucinazioni, rinnovo' le strutture teatrali prima di tutto in senso espressionistico. E proprio quest'opera sarà pienamente riconosciuta solo dopo la Seconda Guerra mondiale dagli autori francesi di fama internazionale : J. P. Sartre, J. Genet nonché dai cosiddetti « assurdisti » degli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta come E. Ionesco, S. Beckett e più particolarmente da A. Adamov, quell'ultimo non avendo mai negato l'influenza decisiva di Strindberg sui propri drammi.
August Strindberg and French theatre after 1945
The vastness and unquestionable relevance of August Strindberg's work did not immediately have a great resonance in France. Although his early dramas, which had led him to naturalism, had enjoyed a certain notoriety at the beginning of the last century, no one remembered, except Artaud, his theatre, which was born following a profound crisis that he himself described as Inferno. This second phase of the Swedish writer's dramaturgical production, marked by anguish and hallucinations, renewed the theatrical structures first of all in an expressionistic sense. And it was precisely this work that would only be fully recognised after the Second World War by the internationally renowned French authors: J. P. Sartre, J. Genet as well as the so-called 'absurdists' of the 1950s and 1960s such as E. Ionesco, S. Beckett and, more particularly, A. Adamov, the latter never having denied Strindberg's decisive influence on his own plays.
Keywords: Strindberg; theatre; France; Sartre; Genet; Adamov
Published: December 11, 2008 Show citation
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