Abstract
This article concentrates on the parallels between Slovene and Czech
poetic drama in the nineteen sixties. I recognise similarities between
the playwrights Dane Zajc, Josef Topol, and Gregor Strniša. Comparative
analysis of Zajc’s and Topol’s texts exposes similar intimate
themes, such as motives of love and the phenomena of time. The most
vivid comparison is between Topol’s play Slavík v večeří and Strniša’s
play Ljudožerci. In both plays, the dramatic plot is constructed as
grotesque and absurd play. The dramatic perspective shows the experience
of the absurd in the world.
Namen prispevka je tematizirati sorodnosti med slovensko in češko
poetično dramo v šestdesetih letih 20. stoletja. V primerjalni analizi
so izpostavljene vzporednice med dramami Daneta Zajca in Josefa
Topola ter Josefa Topola in Gregorja Strniše. V Zajčevih in Topolovih
dramah se pojavljajo podobne intimne teme in motivi, kot sta fenomen
ljubezni in časa. Najbolj izrazite so sorodnosti med Topolovo igro
Slavček za večerjo in Strniševimi Ljudožerci. Pri obeh se dogajanje
razvije v groteskno, absurdno igro, ki že izraža doživetje in spoznanje
o absurdu v svetu.