TY - JOUR
TI - “As If It Were True…”: Tadeusz Rittner’s Dubious Realism and Dubious Modernism
AU - Brzozowska, Sabina
TI - “As If It Were True…”: Tadeusz Rittner’s Dubious Realism and Dubious Modernism
AB - 
	This paper is an attempt at redefining selected plays written by Tadeusz Rittner in the modernist and symbolist convention. In the 1950s, they were evaluated by Zbigniew Raszewski as among the playwright’s lesser achievements. I have analysed three texts: the one-act plays Sąsiadka (“The Neighbour”) and Odwiedziny o zmroku (“A Visit at Dusk”) as well as the play Don Juan. There is no doubt that the author did not avoid stylistic exaggeration in his modernist works, but one can also find some distance from the conventions of the Young Poland period as well as the use of the grotesque, theatrical sham, and the poetics of intimate drama in these plays. Rittner’s Viennese character is an alibi for his aesthetic choices and the manner of staging emotions. The evaluation of these plays, which were written in the symbolist and modernist convention, was affected by the theatrical reception, the artists’ superficial reading of the instructions included in the stage directions, and the pigeonholing of the works as realism with a hint of Romantic mood.
VL - 2020
IS - Issue 3 (45) 2020
PY - 2020
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 35
EP - 55
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.20.021.12829
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/jak-gdyby-to-byla-prawda-podejrzany-realizm-i-podejrzany-modernizm-tadeusza-rittnera
KW - drama
KW - theatre
KW - modernism
KW - realism
KW - Tadeusz Rittner