DOMINANT MOTIVES OF THE PLAY BY O. BOGAYEV "DEAD EARS, OR A HISTORY OF TOILETTE PAPER"
TITKOVA Natal'ya Evgenievna, ESINA Ekaterina Aleksandrovna
N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (Branch) in Arzamas
Abstract. The article presents a survey of the basic motives of the play "Dead Ears, or a History of Toilette Paper" by the Russian dramatist, one of the representatives of the "new drama" Oleg Bogayev. The action of the play develops in the fantastic reality which perfectly satisfies the poetics of a drama of absurdity. The author emphasizes the motives of deafness, loneliness, doom and Apocalypse and concludes that these motives are dominant not only in the analyzed play but in all the works of the dramatist.
Key words and phrases: "новая драма", фантастическая реальность, мотив глухоты, мотив одиночества, мотив обреченности, мотив Апокалипсиса, драма абсурда, "new drama", fantastic reality, motive of deafness, motive of loneliness, motive of doom, motive of Apocalypse, drama of absurdity
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