Vol. 11 No. 1 (2009): Dialogue/Monologue, Diálogo/Monólogo, Dialogo/Monologo
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La parole solitaire « conventionnelle » de Bernard-Marie Koltès

Eszter Gerda Miklós
Université de Debrecen

Published 01-06-2009

Keywords

  • monologue,
  • soliloquy,
  • Bernard-Marie Koltès,
  • solitude,
  • theatre play

How to Cite

Miklós, E. G. (2009). La parole solitaire « conventionnelle » de Bernard-Marie Koltès. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 11(1), 203–214. https://doi.org/10.1556/Verb.11.2009.1.13

Abstract

Monologues are considered to be key aspects of Koltès' plays. This paper aims to present themonologues and the triple-soliloquy in Le retour au désert (The Return to the Desert) (1988), which is a play less often analysed from this point of view. Anne Ubersfeld regards these monologues as too conventional compared to the forty-seven-page long soliloquy of La Nuit juste avant les forêts (The Night Just before the Forests) (1977) and the quasi-monologues of Quai Ouest (Quay West) (1985) and Roberto Zucco (1988).