%0 Journal Article
%T The theatre of Bernard-Marie Koltès as a theatre of transgression
%A Starak, Grażyna
%J Romanica Cracoviensia
%V Volume 21 (2021)
%R 10.4467/20843917RC.21.017.14189
%N Volume 21, Issue 3
%P 167-175
%K theatre, transgression, form, violence, desire
%@ 1732-8705
%D 2021
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/le-theatre-de-koltes-theatre-des-transgressions
%X 
	
		When we define specific theatrical forms, the work of Bernard-Marie Koltès transcends the boundaries between the forms. La nuit juste avant les forêts was a soliloquy or a quasi-monologue, Dans la solitude des champs de coton related to the form of the eighteenth-century philosophical dialogue, and Roberto Zucco provoked scandal due to the eponymous character of a serial murderer. All of Koltès’s texts, including the above, transgress the boundaries, either through their form or through the philosophy included in them. The violence that is inseparable from Koltès’s theatre is often devoid of any motivation, it is not grounded in any reasoning, it often acquires a mythical meaning, aggression becomes a desire, and evil becomes a source of fascination and something beautiful. The article is an attempt to demonstrate the unusual cooperation of form and content in Koltès’s theatre, while both of the elements balance between what is acknowledged, acceptable, and definable.