Searching for Sense in Nonsense: Few Remarks on Dramaturgy of Beginning of 20th Century

Abstract

Dramaturgy of 19^th and 20^th century breakthrough is an amazingly interesting phenomenon. It is full of various concepts, ideas, researches and questions. There is one question which is obviously one of the most exposed places, the question of sense (or nonsense) of culture, civilisation and world. It seems that dramaturges of that period, in deep belief about the coming end of existing values, peace and sense try to find and present in their pieces of art the world of the future—created from searching and belief. Among the dramas from that period we can find both eschatological prophesies and most remote visions of peaceful world, therefore they are characteristic searching of sense in nonsense. Furthermore, among them we can find various outlooks on life, creating sense worlds: from Solovyov’s land of Souls World through religious reminiscences and transformations to futuristic pictures.