TY - JOUR
TI - Victoires of Wajdi Mouawad: when defenestration becomes a collective hope
AU - Giacomazzi, Enzo
TI - Victoires of Wajdi Mouawad: when defenestration becomes a collective hope
AB - Victoire, a student at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, committed suicide when she was only twenty-four years old. This death, inspired by Greek tragedies, reveals a gesture that is both heroic and symptomatic of an era. In his play, Wajdi Mouawad questions the depth of the deadly gesture of suicide as well as fate of death. By analyzing the funeral rites evoked in the play, we will see how Victoire's friends engage in a process of idealizing death, making Victoire a modern heroine. The gesture of death transforms into that of a gesture of hope, leading them towards a surge of life itself.
VL - 2022
IS - Numéro 29
PY - 2022
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 106
EP - 129
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.22.004.15625
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/victoires-de-wajdi-mouawad-de-la-defenestration-a-lespoir-collectif
KW - Wajdi Mouawad
KW - Greek tragedy
KW - heroin
KW - suicide
KW - come back to life