Filozoficzne błazenady braci Priesniakowów : rzecz o "dramaturgii środka"

Abstract

The article raises the issues connected with the „middle literature” in the Russian contemporary literature. The phenomenon of the “middle literature, not ultimately investigated, although evokes controversies (because of the lack of particular determinants and too big closeness with the popular literature) among critics and seems to be extremely helpful in the analysis of works by young Russian playwrights Oleg and Vladimir Priesniakow. A drama duet makes plays being an incessant dialogue of a “high” ideological message (they deal with philosophical, existential, socio‑cultural problems) with an artistic form adjusted to receptive abilities of an “average” reader. Borrowing serious philosophical discourses from a highbrow literature and shaping them in grotesque and absurd forms, depict strongly in a universal idea of a dialogue of aesthetics and poetics.