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L’Enchantement et Le Masque d’Henry Bataille, ou les subversions formelles du “théâtre de boulevard”.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Kaczmarek, Tomasz
In his lifetime considered the “new Racine”, Henry Bataille has passed into posterity as a creator of “sentimental realism” that seems to fit perfectly within the aesthetics of boulevard theater. Indeed, the playwright’s name is often among those who sincerely admire the rigid yet anachronistic construction of the “well-made play”. However, despite the author’s certain attachment to the tradition of dramatic art, he does not hesitate to subvert its essential foundations. By analyzing Bataille’s earliest plays, such as The Enchantment and The Mask, there is an evident crisis of the canonical form that Bataille perverts through the intrusion of narrative sequences, the undermining of the fable, and the construction of a character deliberately devoid of its active attributes. The study of these two texts reveals the originality of the writer’s pen, which, despite a few concessions to realism, turns away from various constraints of the “absolute drama”, while heralding the advent of a new poetics of drama.