Chekhov was the first dramatist to realize that, on stage and in life, what is not said explicitly is often the decisive dramatic ingredient. In The Cherry Orchard, Lopahkin fails to declare his love for Vanya by getting himself tied up in a redundant conversation about lost galoshes.
But it was the job of the [...]
SURREALISTS & SYMBOLISTS
The Surrealists stood against everything which mutilates man’s inner life, or stifles his imagination for the sake of peace and quiet, law and order and the smooth running of the social machine.
Surrealism constantly poses the question: Whether in the eyes of the society in which we live, the ‘compleat person’ is a ‘crime [...]
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