Religious discourse in the dramaturgy of Ivan Wyrypaev (Genesis no. 2, Oxygen, The Drunk Ones)

Katarzyna Wasińczuk

Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych, Instytut Filologii Słowiańskiej
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3340-0137

Abstract

The present article is devoted to Ivan Vyrypayev’s dramaturgy, which raises religious issues and develops the threads of spiritual exploration. The aim of our work is to trace religious motifs and to indicate the manner of presentation of a sacral, spiritual context in works that seem to be far from manifesting the faith. This aim also leads to an attempt to reconstruct the concept of God and man in the dramas of Vyrypayev. The works of the Russian playwright, which are a specific record of cultural, social and religious transformations, provoke a reflection on the way of experiencing transcendence by modern man suspended between atheism and institutionalized religiosity. The tasks of the article are motivated by the presence in the world of numerous religious symbols, references to various spiritual traditions, the use of literary genres and images of biblical provenance, etc. The subject of these analyses are the selected dramas by Ivan Vyrypayev, Genesis No. 2, Oxygen and The Drunk Ones.

Keywords:

new Russian drama and religion, Genesis No. 2, Oxygen, The Drunk Ones