TY - JOUR
TI - The return “in cake” – a grotesque recipe according to Matéi Visniec
AU - Kucharuk, Sylwia
TI - The return “in cake” – a grotesque recipe according to Matéi Visniec
AB - The play The Return Home by Matéi Visniec commemorates the First World War, but thanks to its universality it may refer to any war. The characters – the Dead of the Homeland – are all presented as alive and they claim their right to a dignified return to the Homeland. But how to return home with dignity in the state of decomposition in which they are? As it happens every day in a community life, ambitions take over. The Commission of Reconciliation solves the problem by proposing to return them “in cake”: all the soldiers pass through a food mill to become a smooth paste with which then a giant cake is made. This return to the past, presented through grotesque images, serves the  author to  denounce how people are manipulated by big ideas. He also poses questions about the meaning of war.
VL - 2019
IS - Numéro 17
PY - 2019
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 39
EP - 52
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.19.003.10298
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/le-retour-en-gateau-la-recette-grotesque-de-matei-visniec
KW - Visniec
KW - war
KW - return
KW - ideology
KW - grotesque