The Theater of Fernand Crommelynck
Author: Fernand Crommelynck
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781575910024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe typically starts out from a realistic situation, then introduces a twist in the psyche of the main character that launches the rest of the action - for example, in The Magnanimous Cuckold a suspected glimmer of lust in Petrus's eye suffices to incite Bruno and to subjugate the other figures in the play to his expression of folly - and the realistic is soon overtaken by the obsessional and finally the absurd.